A great story with some incredibly cute pictures from the Best Friends Animal Society, sent to us by Joan Orr, author of Getting Started: Clicking with Your Rabbit and ClickerExpo faculty member:
Ferrets + Fish + Guinea Pigs + Rabbits + Rats + Small Pets
Training a Fish: Goldfish-Click
By Ogden Lindsley on 06/27/2006Note: Ogden Lindsley was one of B.F. Skinners' first graduate students, a past president of the Association for Behavior analysis, and one of the first behavior analysts to grasp the power of shaping with a conditioned reinforcer. As a professor at the University of Kansas, he required his own students to shape behavior; many of them used goldfish. The instructions here for clicker training a goldfish are easy to follow and make a good science project. Karen Pryor
Taming Shy or Feral Rabbits with Clicker Training
By BUNS on 06/27/2006Editor's note: Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter, or BUNS, is a nonprofit volunteer group that cares for abandoned rabbits (and guinea pigs) at the Santa Barbara County Stray Animal Shelter in Santa Barbara, California . The organization educates potential adopters and performs home visits before placing rabbits. All of BUNS' rabbits are spayed or neutered before being adopted. BUNS added clicker training to enrich the lives of both shelter and adopted rabbits, and found that clicker training can be used to increase adoptable behaviors in their rabbits. The group also offers rabbit clicker training classes. Visit the BUNS website for further information.
Getting Started: Clicking with Your Rabbit
By KPCT on 06/01/2006Why leave your bunny in a cage all day when you could both be having fun together?
Rabbits are smart! Find out how your rabbit can quickly learn to:
- Jump through a hoop and sit in a basket
- Happily get into your lap to be carried and snuggled
- Come when called
- "Gimme five" with a paw
- Use a litter box
- Stop biting and other problem behaviors
Bunnies in Your Easter Basket? Better Get this Book, Too!
By KPCT on 04/05/2006Waltham, MA, April 5, 2006—Just in time for Easter, Karen Pryor Clickertraining has published a new and indispensable guide for bunny owners. Getting Started: Clicking with Your Rabbit by Joan Orr and Teresa Lewin will show you exactly how to bring out the best in your bunny friend.
