Karen Pryor Clickertraining - Rabbits

Train Your Bunny to Sit in an Easter Basket

Joan Orr — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Enjoy 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

Bill Peña — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:55:34 -0500

A 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

BUNS — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:58:06 -0500

Editor'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

KPCT — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0500

Why 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

Bunnies in Your Easter Basket? Better Get this Book, Too!

KPCT — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0500

Waltham, MA, April 5, 2006—Just in time for Easter, Karen Pryor Clickertraining has published a new and indispensable guide for bunny owners. Getting Started: Clicking with Your Rabbit by Joan Orr and Teresa Lewin will show you exactly how to bring out the best in your bunny friend.

What? Train a Rabbit?

Joan Orr — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600

Rabbitsâ€¦ furry and lovable, of course; quirky and silly, sometimes; full of energy and mischief, undoubtedly; but trainable? You bet! You're probably training your rabbit without even realizing it. Is he litter-box trained? Does he come to see you when you go to his cage? Then you've already taken your first steps.

Training Your Rabbit to Jump on Cue

Joan Orr — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0600

There are many different ways a bunny can jump. She can jump over a pole, through a hoop, onto a platform, or into a basket. This trick teaches your bunny to jump over a pole, but with some creative baby steps, jumping can easily be generalized to jumping in other situations.

Clicker Trained Bunnies Gain Confidence

Karen Pryor — Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:00:00 -0600

Animal shelters are taking in more and more "house bunnies" these days, and looking for homes for them. Bunnies make great house pets; they quickly learn to use a litter box, they're clean, they are active in the evening when you get home from work, and they can be very amusing. The bunnies in shelters have usually been spayed or neutered as well, so you can have more than one without worries.

Clicker Training Your Small Pet

Joan Orr — Mon, 01 Mar 2004 00:00:00 -0600

Clicker training small pets is a rewarding experience for animal and owner both. Rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs, rats and other small pets are entirely trainable. Clicker training can help develop positive behavior, as well as a bond between human and animal. Joan Orr's article on clicker training small pets, as published in fall 2005 issue of PETS magazine, is available online as a PDF.