Dogs, horses, and rats. Birds, goldfish, cats. Dolphins, raccoons, and elephants. What animals can’t we train? In this section you’ll find lots of great training stories and tips. You will also get to meet many of the wonderful animals that I get to train. I hope that you’ll enjoy reading about my adventures (and misadventures) and that these articles and tales can provide you with insight that will help you with your own animals.
Chewie and I have a new behavior we have been working on recently — a chin rest! Here’s how this behavior works: I hold out my hand, under Chewie’s head Chewie backs up a couple of steps She stops when the underside of her head touches my hand I reposition my hand slightly so my […]
Chewie has been wearing her Tractive tracker on and off for a few weeks now. So, I thought it might be fun to share some screenshots of some of the data I am collecting! Here’s 24 hours of tracking data from a recent day. What did Chewie do for 24 hours? Chewie and her donkey […]
I’m just back from spending almost a week in San Francisco for the 2026 ABAI convention. ABAI is the Association for Behavior Analysis, International. ABAI 2026 in San Fransisco I had a nice time at the convention! I got to see a lot of friends and a lot of interesting presentations. I also had a […]
I’ve started experimenting with using a small GPS tracking device to track Chewie’s movement. It’s a Tractive tracker, which people often use to track the activities of their dog when out walking or hiking. Or, to be able to find the dog if the dog gets lost! Chewie with the tracker on her head I […]
Last week, I wrote about introducing Chewie to a fly mask. This week, Chewie and I have continued to practice putting on and taking off the fly mask. In this week’s post, I wanted to share a video with you of our current fly mask routine, as well as some big ideas that I have […]
Now that the nice spring weather has arrived, the flies are also back! Chewie and I have been doing some fly mask training. I think she will appreciate wearing a fly mask, as it will help keep the pesky flies off her face. I’ve been using clicker training this week to introduce Chewie to the […]
