If you are able to teach a reactive dog to be calm in the presence of one person or dog, how easily can he learn to be calm in the presence of other people and dogs?
Dogs
Housetraining Basics
By Peggy Tillman on 01/24/2012Your goal is to teach your puppy the right place to eliminate. Here's how to potty train your puppy with clicker training.
Thinking Beyond the Cue: Ken Ramirez Takes Animal Training to a New Level
By Julie Gordon on 01/01/2012Editor's note: Can an animal think beyond specific cues and generalize to a broader concept? Can you teach a dog to copy a behavior that another dog just performed? Can you teach the difference between big and little? Left and right? When we think of animal training, we don't often think beyond teaching certain cues. ClickerExpo faculty member Ken Ramirez offers a chance to think beyond the cue and rethink what dogs are capable of—when the right training method is used.
Chill Out, Roger! How Clicker Training Helped One Dog Move from Crazy to Calm
By Irith Bloom on 01/01/2012Case study in communication
One of the best things about training pet animals is the almost-daily opportunity to improve communication between two different species. This opportunity is particularly precious when the pet was previously trained using outdated or ineffective methods. One communication success story from my own career concerns a dog I will call "Roger." (Note that in this article Roger's names and the names of his humans have been changed to protect their privacy.)
How to Cure a Cat-Chasing Dog
By Karen Pryor on 01/01/2012When I brought Mimi the Burmese home at the age of 12 weeks I was quite worried about my older dog. I felt sure that my young poodle, Misha, and the new kitten would rapidly become friends and playmates (which they did). However Twitchett, a 9-year-old border terrier, represented a serious threat. In fact, one senior animal behaviorist had e-mailed me advising that I rethink my plan of getting a kitten.
