I spent most of March in England, launching new British line of the Karen Pryor brand clicker training books in a joint venture with Ringpress, a British publishing company. I worked with a lot of British clicker trainers and British clicker dogs, and signed books for four days at Crufts, the world's biggest dog show. It was a dazzling experience. Here are some highlights:
Karen's Letters
DogRead
By Karen Pryor on 03/01/2002Being the February author of the month on DogRead, the on line dog-related book club, was an incredible rush. Click to Win did not come off the press until well into the month, so we started with some simple clicker exercises which, as people began receiving their books, became more complex and more directly related to the show ring behaviors of gaiting, stacking, and displaying confidence and good temperament.
Launch of Click to Win: Clicker Training for the Show Ring
By Karen Pryor on 02/01/2002The big news this month is the publication of my new book, Click to Win, Clicker Training for the Show Ring. This is a collection of my articles from the AKC Gazette on using the clicker to give your dog the skills to do its very best in the show ring, time after time. It also includes three articles on the experimental master class I taught here in Boston, an article on clicking puppies in the litter, and more.
Clicker Training for Your Horse
By Karen Pryor on 01/01/2002The coming of the New Year brought a beautiful post to the clickryder list, written by Karen Willmus, mother of four, and a horse trainer in Minnesota. Karen discovered clicker training in 1998, when Sunshine Books and clickertraining.com first published Alexandra Kurland's Clicker Training for Your Horse.
Learning By Observation
By Karen Pryor on 12/01/2001Thanks so much, everyone, for your delightful accounts of learning by observation. It's a fun question; I've had over 200 answers so far, and they're still coming in. I hope to pull together a formal report sometime in 2002; here are some preliminary comments.
