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Marley and Us: Clicker Training on the Movie Set

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"Class! Collar your dogs!"

Most Americans would recognize the husky female voice that gave that command in a heartbeat.

I followed instructions, bent over my Doberman, Leissl, and placed around her neck the 15-year-old choke collar I had taken out of storage. Then I stood up, as rehearsed, to listen for the next command from the class instructor, Kathleen Turner.

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Helen Schwarzmann began training dogs in Southern California in 1979. Eighteen years later, she moved to Florida where she clicks and treats for fun and competition. Helen maintains the Florida Dobermann Pinscher Rescue Ring website for orphaned Dobies, and blogs about life with her expansive family of canines at www.dobermannpinscher.org.