When do I fade the click? How do I fade the click? We hear those questions all the time. The smart-aleck answer is “Never.” Because we don’t “fade”

It seems straightforward: you click to mark a desired behavior, and then you reinforce. The act of reinforcing the behavior necessitates a change in action: the horse eats

“Clicker training is easy,” said the woman in the puppy class. “It’s growing a third hand that is hard!” Like many beginning clicker trainers, she’s discovered that clicker training is as

This article is shared for historical reference and enjoyment. While it reflects the best practices at the time of publication (03/01/2005), standards and recommendations may have evolved. This article

When we first start out clicker training, we tend to get very excited about the fact that we can teach the dog a new behavior in just a few clicks. Suddenly,

This paper reveals a fascinating piece of scientific detective work by Gail Peterson, Ph.D., a professor of behavior analysis at the University of Minnesota. During World War II, Skinner and

In her book Click to Calm: Healing the Aggressive Dog, Emma Parsons presents several groundbreaking concepts in treating canine aggression through clicker training. One of her remarkable new

Unlocking Animal Creativity What if you could ask an animal to invent something new? The “creative” game, an application of operant conditioning, was first developed with dolphins at

Train two behaviors at once? Teach two cues simultaneously? How? Why? Teaching certain cues in pairs can speed up the learning process and teach a dog a concept

Clicker training is a terrific, science-based way to communicate with your pet. You can clicker train any kind of animal, of any age. Puppies love it. Old dogs

Below are The Ten Laws of Shaping, as included in Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor. Since it was first published, we have learned more about the

The Training Game is a great dog training game for people who want to sharpen their shaping skills and have fun at the same time. It allows you