🐶 Karen Pryor's Clicker Training for Dogs: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners Review

is a good basic guide for people who know little about classical and operant training. I am a psychologist and studied these techniques on rats and pigeons many years ago. However, it was a good reminder of what I had learned and almost forgotten many years ago. I have a small dog, not very smart and quite old (13), who is learning the basics of the clicker program. There would be no end to what could be taught to a dog with a Border Collie! I think it's a fun hobby to learn and I would…

I found this book to be well written, easy to understand and although I was skeptical before reading it, it really makes sense. Learning is based on operant conditioning (positive reinforcement), the effectiveness of which has been scientifically proven. My dogs really get this, which makes behavior training a lot easier than with traditional (negative) effects. I love Karen Pryor's approach so much that I bought another of her books, Don't Shoot the Dog! The New Art of Training and Training…

I have been a dog trainer for over 30 years but have never tried clicker training because every time I tried to figure it out I thought there are so many RULES and horrible debates about which ones RULE that was the best. Had a headache and decided to walk away from it for a few more years. I've always been a reward-based trainer, but once the dog knew what to do and what not to do, I would make corrections such as pulling him back to where he should "grab" (sit). I don't like to correct, it…