The video below is a great example of how a person can use clicker training and positive reinforcement training techniques to deal with annoying, dangerous, or otherwise unwanted behavior. In this case, the dog had a habit of jumping up into the owner’s face when she would bend over. The owner does a great job […]
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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.
Clicker training a zonkey? (video)
First, you may be asking…. What’s a zonkey?! A zonkey is a hybrid equine — half zebra and half donkey. A zonkey looks a lot like a donkey, but with stripes. Hannah Dawnson, a clicker trainer from England, recently posted a video on her Facebook page of the latest additions to her barn, two zonkeys. […]
Izzy rat eats her medicine (video)
One of my rats, Izzy, was sick several times this fall and winter with some pretty nasty respiratory infections. (You might remember the photo I posted when she met the cat at the vet’s office.) Fortunately, she seems to be all better now. I’ve had several people ask — how do you give medicine to […]
Merry Christmouse!
Happy holidays to you, your family, and all of your pets and critters! I hope you are having a joyous holiday season. We are suppose to get some snow here in north Texas tomorrow, quite a rare occurrence. So, we might have a white Christmas for once, which would be pretty fun. At the very […]
Wordless Wednesday: Smart pups!
Last week’s wordless Wednesday photo featured some Canadian school children who were learning about clicker training at a young age. This week’s photo is another group of lucky youngsters who are getting an early start learning about positive training. Veterinarian Tracy Johnson sent me this GREAT photo of a litter of pups who recently visited […]
Herding 101 (+R Edition)
This is a guest post by Aimee Davis. If you are interested in writing a guest post for the StaleCheerios blog, please check out the guest post guidelines. My 15 month old German shepherd dog Shelby is a wonderful dog. Wonderful, but not extraordinary. She isn’t Rico the border collie or Einstein the parrot or […]