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 […]
Well… no. A recent research study, which was featured on theHorse.com, found that when the horses in the study were given a choice, they would rather not work. The article concludes that horses would rather hang out in the pasture with their buddies, than be ridden by a person. (You can read the article here.) […]
The 2013 Canis Film Festival is coming up soon! If you’ve not heard of the Canis Film Festival, it’s a very cool film festival that is sponsored by Karen Pryor Clicker Training and is held every two years. From Karen Pryor’s website: The Canis Film Festival is designed to showcase innovative, highly–communicative, short videos on […]
