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Raising a Great Family Dog [4]
Training your family dog using the clicker training approach is particularly family friendly. Here's why. -
Is Clicker Training Right for Me? [4]
Clicker training delivers the potential for a relationship between you and your dog that is so much more than one of mere obedience. -
Why Can't I Just Use My Voice? [4]
Clicker training involves shaping behavior in small steps, identifying the behavior, as it occurs, with some kind of marker signal. But couldn't you just use a word, like "good," or "yes," as a marker signal?
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An Introduction to Clicker Training [7]
From Virginia Broitman and Sherri Lippman's The How of Bow Wow, this clear overview of clicker training gives you the basics in just one minute! -
An Introduction to Housetraining a Puppy [8]
Carolyn Clark gives you an overview and some tips on potty training your puppy. -
An Introduction to Target Training [9]
Watch as Karen Pryor demonstrates how clicker training can be used with all types of animals, including a fish!
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i-Click 5-Pack [18]
Revolutionary in design and function, the new i-Click was designed by the clicker trainers at KPCT to provide the next generation tool for clicker training. -
Don't Shoot the Dog [18]
This is the "Bible" on positive reinforcement training, or operant conditioning, and how it works—with people and, of course, with animals. Fun to read, too! Over 300,000 in print. Karen Pryor's clear and entertaining explanation of behavioral training methods made "Don't Shoot the Dog" a bestselling classic! -
Click to Calm: Healing the Aggressive Dog [18]
When Emma Parsons, canine trainer and behavior consultant, discovered that Ben, her own prized golden retriever, was aggressive toward other dogs and that traditional remedies took his reactivity to nightmarish levels, she turned to clicker training. Now the solutions she developed are laid out, clearly and empathetically, for you to follow.
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Use this toy to teach scent recognition, come, fetch, hold, and carry. Use it alone or attach it to the river rope. Fill with treats or scent, toss, call back, and reward with a treat!
Use the Puppy Trainer Fetch Stick to teach come, fetch, hold, and carry. Use it alone or attach it to the river rope. Great for play—little dogs and puppies love them!
The Figure Eight Tug has two loops—one loop is a convenient handle for easy gripping, while the other has fleece streamers that add interest for your dog. This toy is 24" long.
While observing exotic animal trainers for her acclaimed book Kicked, Bitten, and Scratched [24], journalist Amy Sutherland had an epiphany: What if she used these training techniques with the human animals in her own life—namely her dear husband, Scott? In this lively and perceptive book, Sutherland tells how she took the trainers’ lessons home.
Meet Tux™. It's a dog's chance to have his cake and eat it, too! Tux is the perfect combination of a supremely stuffable and tossable dog treat toy—made from guaranteed-tough Zogoflex®. Tux is pliable, bouncy, nontoxic, recyclable, and buoyant. Simply stuff your dog's favorite treat into the cavity of Tux and let 'er rip. Tux is even dishwasher safe for easy cleaning! Tux is a treat toy and was designed to withstand chewing, and to be fun with or without a treat!
The Bottle Tracker Toy can be used for retrieving, scent recognition, search and rescue training, and contraband training. It also makes an enthralling and interactive toy. Fill a basic plastic bottle (which acts as a barrier between the scent and the toy’s inner surface) with training treats, ice, or scenting materials. Add a few holes for the scent to escape.
You probably know a lot about dog training already, but maybe you are not happy with just being a good dog trainer. We think you want to be really good, in fact great! You want to be a SUPERTRAINER, right? Of course! Serious dog trainers like you always want to improve their training. You’d like to be the kind of dog trainer who is able to solve any kind of dog problem—no matter what kind of dog, no matter what kind of behavior. You’d like to know exactly how to analyze the problem, design a training plan, and fix it. And dogs would just love you!
From the endlessly inventive Kay Laurence, here’s a whole collection of new games for the clicker dog and owner. The focus of the games ranges from simple targeting to modified hunting skills and highly specific movement patterns. These training exercises develop not just the behavior itself, but attributes and skills such as self-confidence, focus, strength, flexibility, spatial awareness, balance, and self control—and not just for the dog, but also for the handler. Whatever your training goals, this book will enrich and expand your training, and provide all kinds of new indoor and outdoor excitement for you and your dog.