karen pryor

Lily is 17. She has been clicker training dogs since she was ten, and now teaches public obedience classes. She read my story in Chapter 1 of Reaching the Animal Mind, about training a hermit crab to ring a bell. So, for her class research project last week at the marine lab, she set out to train a crab to ring a bell. Her professor doubted it would work...

Lads Before the Wind" has helped me make the biggest leap I feel I have made so far in understanding animal training.  I have studied the mechanics.  I have practiced and read.  I have great teachers.  I get results.  I feel like now it has all come together and I understand a whole lot more.