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ClickerExpo Caps First Year: Enthusiasm, Interest, and Excitement

By KPCT on 04/01/2004

Clicker trainers from up and down the East Coast, from Canada, and from places as far south as Bogota, Colombia, flocked to the third ClickerExpo forum in Pennsylvania for three days of educational sessions designed to help people Rethink What's Possible (copyright) through the power of clicker training.

Who was there? A wonderful cross-section of trainers and teachers using clicker training with zoos, social work, sports, horses, marine mammals, developmentally disabled children, and of course, with dogs, cats, rabbits, and even turtles.

Animal Behavior Management Alliance

By Karen Pryor on 04/01/2004

Times have changed. Now zoos are paying keepers to come to this conference and other training conferences, like our ClickerExpos. Trainers have formed companies to provide consulting help to other zoos; at the ABMA meeting, I observed keepers looking for consulting help and senior trainers happily finding new clients. While some zoos still resist the change, the keepers themselves are making it work, with all kinds of organisms, in all kinds of facilities, and with management support or without. Here, if not everywhere, I think the tipping point has been reached.

Teach Your Dog to Click

By Aaron B. Clayton on 04/01/2004

Why do I have to do all the clicking? Why not teach Tucker, my lab puppy, to click me and my good behavior?

With the i-click, this trick is easy, because the shape of the i-click makes it physically possible for your dog to click you! All you have to do is shape the behavior!

ClickerSolutions: Clicking for Joy

By Melissa Alexander on 04/01/2004

In February 2004, my book Click for Joy! received a Maxwell award from the Dog Writers Association of America for "Best Training or Behavior Book of 2003." The award itself is a heavy medallion, reminiscent of an Olympic medal. Writing a book is much like running a marathon, so I suppose an Olympic medal is fitting, but, in the case of Click for Joy, I think an Oscar metaphor is more apt. This book was a team effort, and there are many people to thank, including the thousands of people who are or have been members of the ClickerSolutions mailing list. Without ClickerSolutions, there would be no Click for Joy.

Host a Bow Wow Seminar

One of the many advantages of having a teacher like Virginia is the ability to accommodate larger groups and still make the seminars very "hands-on." Most of Virginia's presentations are working seminars, where attendees and their dogs participate in training segments throughout the day, practicing the elements that Virginia demonstrates with video or on stage. Working groups of dog handler teams (max 50/day), Virginia elegantly structure a fantastic day of hands-on learning with dog-handler teams.