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I greatly appreciate the approach of positive, operant conditioning training . It can have remarkable effects, if you know what you’re doing. My only complaint is it takes awhile to actually know what you’re doing, at least for fog-heads like me. There’s nothing you can’t teach a dog with a clicker and goodie bag they say, and I believe that. Heck, zoos use clicker training on lions and elephants and such, to make vet visits safer. People teach their dogs to balance on ...

Kathy now travels frequently to lead seminars for dog trainers and instructors on clicker training . Her ClickerExpo seminars have drawn rave reviews for her infectious enthusiasm and powerful insights. ... and obedience, as well as service dog organizations. That's been especially exciting as the crossover in service dog training to operant conditioning and the use of a marker signal was resisted at first by many in the field, but now is becoming more accepted. ...

2. Positive dog training . Positive training was developed under the principles of Skinner’s operant conditioning . While it’s not a new technique, it didn’t get enough popularity until the nineties. Former students of Skinner, psychologists Keller and Marian Breland, ... Clicker training is the most popular of these techniques in many countries. It is the same technique used by Keller and Marian Breland, and was popularized by the biologist and dolphin trainer Karen Pryor . ...