The precision of a clicker was needed when teaching Twister how to "pray." One of the things I am asked about by newcomers to our program is why we do not use a clicker very much. After-all, my website is www.clickerdogs.com you know! [...]
I am sitting at the airport Monday morning waiting to board our plane back home. Our 2nd FCI Championship experience is over. I will post some of my runs later but unfortunately I haven’t been able to see my last run as it was accidentally [...]
Thanks to all of you for your candid comments when owning up to being shaped by your dog. Loads of funny stories that is for certain. Hopefully you will also consider how to make changes to your daily routine to prevent future issues with your [...]
To honour of all of my awesome teammates rockin' it at the FCI World Championships in Dornbirn, Austria this weekend I thought I would post this awesome video. Thanks Kim for sending it my way. Even if you aren't Canadian, I think you will find [...]
Twister (1992-2008) working her chair routine Isn't it funny how all of these posts on dogs shaping people have ended up having picture of a terrier with them. And not coincidentally many of your comments are about Jack Russell Terriers! Hmm, yes indeed terriers [...]
DeCaff, as a puppy, practicing her training mechanics. Carrying on from yesterday’s post here are some more ways dogs have learned to shape their humans. Many dogs learn how effective hunger strikes can be when shaping a human. People can’t stand to watch [...]
Who really is shaping who here? That is what 9 week old DeCaff appeared to be asking. It is fascinating to me how this shaping stuff works. Here we have one animal (ideally you) providing reinforcement in order to get another animal (say [...]
As I have said in the past, it takes a lot to impress me from a dog training point of view. However, this act was way cool. I have seen many of the tricks before but is the animation of the dogs (and yes they [...]
Well, Encore and I leave on Sunday for the World Championships in Austria. I have chosen to drive to Montreal in order to get a direct flight for her. I really prefer when flying such a long distance that my dog has no plane transfer [...]
13 years ago, eyes told it all about then 7 week old Buzzy. Yesterday I wrote a post for a clicker list in response to a question to helping out-of-control dogs. I decided this post needed to be shared with all of you [...]
Since posting about potential injurious nature of some retreive games I have had many of you let me know you no longer will be playing the game of "Fetch-it" the same way you previously did with your dog. That is awesome. But now you have [...]
We had another great group in for skills camp this weekend. Lots of pivotal break throughs for many campers. We had some extremely experienced students and some brand new ones but all really nice people, so it makes teaching almost effortless. My staff were as [...]
