If you've ever had a rewarding experience volunteering, you know that it's not always clear who benefits more: the person donating their time and services, or the recipient. This is especially true when working with animals. That win-win scenario is exemplified in The Latham Letter article "A New Wrinkle in Animal-Assisted Therapy," written by Lynn Loar, Ph.D., LCSW, President, The Pryor Foundation and Ken White, President, Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA.
Rabbits
Train Your Bunny to Sit in an Easter Basket
By Joan Orr on 04/01/2007Enjoy spring with a real Easter Bunny—yours! Here's how to train your rabbit to climb into a basket and stay there, as excerpted from Getting Started: Clicking with your Rabbit by Joan Orr and Teresa Lewin.
Feral Rabbits Trained and Socialized with Clickers
By Bill Peña on 06/28/2006A 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:
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
