Clicker Training for Dogs

100% recommend!

This is the best starter clicker training book I have found. Of course Karen Pryor is the premier trainer when it comes to clicker training and all training. My service dog trainer recommended it and I love it.

Clicker training will supercharge the training of your dog (and other animals) and strengthen the communication between you. This is not the end-all, be-all book about clicker training (and doesn't purport to be) but it will allow you to get real results and give you useful skills to build on.

I'm new to clicker training but with the help of Karen's book, my dog seems to be responding to it. In fact today she got off her run and if it weren't for the clicker training, I would have had difficulty getting her back. I am looking forward to working my dog more with it.

The book is very readable, easy to follow, and illustrated with photos. Anyone can use it. I have now clicker trained my cats to climb up their new cat tree (which they were afraid to go near just a few weeks ago). The best thing about it is that it makes training fun for both the animal and the trainer - there is no coercion and no punishment involved, just rewards, so the animal is an active and eager partner to the training.

Karen Pryor, the author of this book, is the woman who introduced clicker training into the dog training's world. As a dolphin trainer, she was convinced that the animal friendly method she used for training dolphins would work for dogs as well. And how right she was! Clicker training is now used by countless training schools and individual dog owners all over the world. "Getting Started: Clicker Training for Dogs" explains what clicker training is, why you should use it and especially HOW to use it. Clicker training is not about the clicker or about food! It is about reinforcement and correct timing, in such a way that information is communicated between trainer and dog. Together you and the dog will learn a new way of interacting. Learn from this book how training can be FUN, both for you and your dog!P.S.: no, clicker training is NOT about trick training (although you can use it to learn your dog funny tricks)! Learn from this book how to communicate with your dog using a clicker, and teach him to sit, lay down, heel, stay, NOT to jump up, NOT to pull etc. Enjoy!