Do you remember Ginger, the cute red-and-white Brittany spaniel? She used to appear on my blog every now and then, but I haven’t blogged about her in quite awhile. Ginger is my parent’s dog and lives in Dallas with them. She and my mom go on lots of walks and she has a great time […]
Amy the rat is learning how to walk around a brick, as you’ll see in the video below. Although walking around a brick might not seem too difficult, this is actually a pretty challenging behavior. Amy had previously learned to stand on top of this very same brick. So, when we first started working on […]
This is an interesting video that I found on YouTube recently. In the video, the trainer explains how to teach a dog to drop a ball or any other sort of object (including a hot dog!). Note: I have never tried this technique, but I found this video interesting to watch and analyze because the […]
I’ll be helping out later this summer with a one week kid’s camp that will be all about pets and positive training! The camp will be held in July at Dog City Training Center in Addison, Texas (a suburb of Dallas). I will be one of three instructors helping with the camp. I’ve always enjoyed […]
Do you use Google Reader to read blog RSS feeds? If so, listen up! If not, you can skip this post. As you might have heard, Google Reader is closing it’s doors on July 1st. That means that you’ll no longer be able to use Google Reader to read new posts from stalecheerios.com or from […]
This post is going to be about teaching people, rather than training animals. (However, it will involve some pretty cute animated animals!) Many of the principles of good animal training apply equally as well to teaching humans. In fact, behavior analysts were designing positive reinforcement based teaching programs for people long before clicker training caught […]
