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Most everyone knows that it doesn’t do any good to beat a dead horse. No matter how hard you beat, you’re not going to be able to convince him to load up into the trailer, jump that 2 foot oxer, or perform any other sort of task.
(Most) people these days also realize that it doesn’t [...]

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So, I’ve begun clicker training with Ginger, my parent’s sweet, smart 3-year-old Brittany who has had very little formal obedience training. (Prior to beginning clicker training, she was fairly well mannered, as your average pet dog goes. She could sit, shake, walk on a leash and knew what parts of the house she could/couldn’t go. [...]

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This is from Dragonfly Farm’s levels program for training a dog using positive reinforcement (clicker training). However, it applied equally as well to other species.
Humans are natural lumpers. We think “This dog needs to learn a 60′ retrieve over a kangaroo” and we don’t stop to think if the dog has ever MET a kangaroo, [...]

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Here’s a well trained dog!
This dog, who’s about a year old, just won StartPet 2008. Really fun video, you can tell how excited and willing to please the dog is. Both the dog and owner look like they’re having a blast. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upLdskCXAhU
 
This is another really interesting video. It shows how fast a behavior can be aquired [...]

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