Clicking With Your Dog: Step-By-Step in Pictures (Karen Pryor Clicker Books) [Paperback]
From Library Journal
Clicker training is a method of teaching behavior to dogs using positive reinforcement. The successive approximation of desired behavior is marked with a clicker and rewarded with a treat, a toy, or a pat. Inappropriate behavior is ignored, not punished. In 1985, Karen Pryor published the seminal work on this method, Don’t Shoot the Dog (Bantam), and issued a revision in 1999. Both editions are highly theoretical and are aimed at the educated, informed lay reader. Tillman, an ergonomics illustrator as well as a dog trainer and clicker-training instructor, has made Pryor’s principles and techniques accessible to the rank amateur. Using easily understandable text and clear, step-by-step drawings (more…)
