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Clicker Training: The Fad that Became a Technology

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By Julie Shaw-Lewis on 11/01/2007
Filed in - Trainer Interviews - Just for Professional Trainers

The first dog I trained was my own dog 22 years ago. I attended a traditional training class, which I tagged "yank and thank." We waited for the dog to "get it wrong," then yanked on its choke collar and promptly "thanked him" (praised him). It makes as little sense to me today as it did then, but at the time I knew of no other options.

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Julie Shaw-Lewis began training dogs in 1984. Today she is the animal behavior technologist at the Purdue Animal Behavior Clinic and a member of Karen Pryor Academy. She is a popular national and international speaker and has received numerous awards for her presentations.

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