 | The Need to Gnaw: How to Prevent Puppy Chewing |
Choosing to chew?What do pet stores sell? Toys for dogs to chew on. Bones for dogs to chew on. Treats for dogs to chew on. Are you seeing a theme yet? | |
| How to Practice Clicker Mechanics |
Do you remember when you learned to tie your shoes? Maybe that's too far back and the details are fuzzy. How about when you learned to type? I remember that well. It was during my freshman year of high school, the first period of the day, bright and early. My fingers were still asleep! As I clicked away at the IBM Selectric typewriter, it seemed so awkward. But as I practiced each day, I became more and more comfortable and my skill improved. By the end of the semester I was typing over 50 words per minute. | |
| Helping Shy Dogs Blossom Using Targeting |
Shy dogs are an especially difficult challenge in the shelter environment because it is so hard for them to establish trust. We have found that teaching these dogs to target our hand can help many shy dogs develop confidence with people fairly quickly. You can't begin to try this method until there is at least one person (staff or volunteer) the shy dog has a little trust in. Target training teaches the dog to touch his nose to some object or person for a click and then treat. (If the shy dog is very noise reactive, you may choose to use a "soft" voice marker or a muffled clicker) | |
| Podcast: The Challenge of Generalizing Calm Behavior in Reactive Dogs |
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? | |
| Housetraining Basics |
Your 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 |
Editor'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 |
Case study in communicationOne 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 |
When 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. | |
| On My Mind: New Year, New Adventure |
Are you a TAGteacher? Add some clicker savvy to your tool kit. Are you a clicker trainer? Add TAGteach know-how to your dealings with people. What's the difference? | |
Karin Pryor clickertraining blog |
