Editor’s note: Recently Karen Pryor traveled to Lexington, Kentucky, for the World Equestrian Games.
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Reaching the Veterinary Community: An Interview with Julie Shaw
By Julie Gordon on 11/01/2010Julie Shaw has been training dogs for more than 25 years and is the animal behavior technologist at a leading midwest veterinary university
Karen Pryor Academy: What’s In It for You?
By Casey Lomonaco on 09/01/2010For new trainers just opening their own business, the decision to enroll in Karen Pryor Academy (KPA) is obvious and easy. If you want to become the best, you must learn from the best. Who better to learn from than the woman who introduced marker training to legions of dog trainers and devotees in the book that revolutionized the field, Don't Shoot the Dog!
On My Mind: Zoos Then and Now
By Karen Pryor on 08/10/2010What’s a good thing to do with a bunch of kids on a summer day? Go to the zoo! I’ve never gotten over my childhood love of zoos. I took my kids, and now I take theirs (you can share a memorable visit to the zoo with my grandchildren in Reaching the Animal Mind, Chapter 5, Creativity).
Choosing to Come When Called—and Other Choice Morsels on the Science of Choice Behaviour!
By Aidan Bindoff on 08/01/2010Dogs make choices. Training is really about increasing the probability that your dog makes the choice that you prefer over all other choices, and that’s why it's important to understand how animals make choices. The good news is that the probability of a behaviour is actually quite predictable—which is not so comforting if you discover that the behaviour you want has a low probability! But the other piece of good news is that there are ways to increase probability, and the study of “choice behaviour” explains how.
