- I'm a pet owner, a friend gave me a clicker, now what?
- Getting Started: Clicker Training for Dogs: The book that has introduced thousands to clicker training
- Clicking with Your Dog: Step by Step: 100 essential and fun behaviors illustrated with clear line drawings + resources and background. A best seller
- I've read "Don't Shoot the Dog". Now I am ready to train.
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Selection Guide: KPCT Dog Books
By KPCT on 01/01/2003Karen Pryor Clickertraining Launches In Europe
By KPCT on 01/01/2003Karen Pryor Clickertraining and Ringpress Books, Ltd., announced today the formation of an agreement to market Karen Pryor Clicketraining products in the UK and Europe.
Clicker Training is the all-positive animal training technology popularized by Karen Pryor, behavioral scientist, animal trainer, and author.
Herding Dogs: Clicker Training Resource
By KPCT on 01/01/2003Are you interested in training a herding dog? Wondering where, if, and how the clicker fits in? Stuck with an expert trainer of the old school, who believes in punishment, and lots of it, for your dog and for you? Here's some help! Lary Lindsay has been running the Yahoo group ClickHerd for a year, now. Here's Lary's introduction:
Pet Dog Versus Performance Dog
By Karen Pryor on 12/01/2002Some trainers differentiate between training the pet dog and training the performance animal-the dog used for search and rescue, police work, hunting and field trials, or as a service dog for the disabled. The view seems to be that the performance dog must be trained with special methods, methods the pet doesn't need because it is only a pet.
Click for Focus
By Karen Pryor on 12/01/2002Creating an atmosphere that's calm helps dogs get adopted. Try this simple focusing exercise as a first step. Put a good treat in your closed hand (e.g. a tiny cube of cheese) and put your fist against the wires. When the dog sniffs your hand, click and toss in the treat. Repeat twice, then put your empty fist against the wires; click for touching, and give the treat from your other hand.
