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.
Have you seen Lili Chin’s latest poster? It’s inspired by this great quote from Ted Turner (behaviorist and head trainer at Sea World): “If you can teach a whale to pee in a cup, you can train your dog without punishment.” The illustration features twelve great examples of wild animals who have been trained to […]
On (almost) Wordless Wednesdays, I often feature rescued animal in north Texas. Last week I posted about Roy, a good looking dog who was looking for his forever home. Well, guess, what? Roy found a home last week! You can see a picture of Roy snuggling with his new dad on the Extreme Mutt Makeover […]
I’ve just uploaded an article to my site that you need to read. It’s by behavior analyst Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz, who is a professor at the University of North Texas. The article is about B.F. Skinner, shaping, trial and error learning, errorless learning, and Isreal Goldiamond’s constructional approach. Clicker training originated out of research conducted […]
On (almost) Wordless Wednesdays, I often feature rescued animal in north Texas. Remember Lilli, who was competing in the Extreme Mutt Makeover? I attended the final competition this past weekend. It was awesome seeing how much the shelter dogs had learned, with just six weeks of training. Many of the dogs from the competition have […]
On Saturday, I attended part of the 2012 Extreme Mutt Makeover competition. I know some of you have been following Lilli’s story on my blog and on her facebook page. Last week, you saw all the tricks she had learned so far! For those who haven’t been following along, the Extreme Mutt Makeover pulls mutts […]
Want to see your pet featured on StaleCheerios? I’m looking for a handful of great photos of people clicker training their dogs, horses, cats, birds, llamas, turtles, guinea pigs, and so on. Photos that capture people having fun with their animals and demonstrate all that can be accomplished using positive training. Specifically, I’m looking for […]
