- The Shape of Shaping: Some Historical Notes
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... ability to learn. Even B.F. Skinner did not start out training animals by capturing and shaping spontaneously offered behavior. ... Clicker training, a popular method of training dogs, horses, and other pets using shaping and a marker signal, the clicker, to ...
Newsletter issue - Karen Pryor - 2009/06/02 - 10:11am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- ClickerExpo 2008: So Much to Offer
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... two are Morten Egtvedt and Cecilie Køste , the married training team from Norway. With their flat-coated retrievers, Morten and Ceci ... tracking, and agility. They were early adopters of clicker training and are Scandinavia's leading authors on this technology. They ...
Newsletter issue - Karen Pryor - 2009/06/02 - 10:29am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Limited Hold
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... falls silent, except for a giggle here and there ("She's training us!") as soon as I step up to the podium and raise my hand. I've ... the difference between getting on one of the guest riding horses at a dude ranch, and getting on a working cowpony, a cutting or roping ...
Newsletter issue - Karen Pryor - 2009/06/02 - 9:56am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Clicking with horses in the news
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Clicker training is featured this week on the website of The Horse magazine, www.the ... describes positive approaches and recommends clicker training and Alexandra Kurland's book, "Clicker Training for Your Horse." ... of related articles attached to this story. KP (Horses, Press) ...
Company blog - Karen Pryor - 2006/08/24 - 1:25pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Aversive or Punishment?
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... the following post from a trainer who didn't advocate training with punishment, but needed clarification on some definitions: ... trainers use the Gentle Leader—and conclude that clicker training is not punishment-free. But that initial assumption is wrong. While ...
Newsletter issue - Karen Pryor - 2009/06/02 - 10:19am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Clicker Training For Horses: Liberty's Story
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... divorce, and didn't do much more than toss feed to the horses during that time. Incidentally she adopted her dams attitude of dislike ... to say so, I was afraid of her. (Success Stories, Horses) ...
Story - Karen Pryor - 2006/10/26 - 9:26am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Lessons from Llamas
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... It's the theory, not the tool Newcomers to operant training may place superstitious value on the specific tools they see others ... that counts. Many zookeepers are now using clicker training to help their animals accept medical care, move back and forth from ...
Newsletter issue - Karen Pryor - 2009/06/02 - 10:18am - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- UDC Report: A New Tracking Title
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Now don't get excited; it wasn't that great a performance. It's the penultimate day of UDC Nationals. The day started well, though, in that we weren't having the thunderstorms originally predicted. We left the hotel parking lot at ...
Blog entry - Laura VanArendo... - 2009/05/01 - 5:13pm - 1 comment
- Clicking with Birds
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... the author of our book on clicking birds, Clicker Training for Birds . Yes! Clicker training works for birds too. Birds were among the first animals ever to be ...
Story - Melinda Johnson - 2007/12/15 - 8:44am - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- Clicker Training Your Ferret
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... pet is a natural candidate for clicker training! too late to train? My ferrets are between five and six years ... nodes being monitored by our vet. I wonder if clicker training them is worth it or if their remaining few years should be more ...
Story - Joan Orr - 2006/12/21 - 9:41am - 3 comments - 0 attachments
