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Clicker Dances with Dogs
Dances With Dogs is a collection of 50 recipes to teach your dog an amazing repertoire of moves to accompany you to music. The new sport of Heelwork to Music, Freestyle and Dressage brings together a unique platform to showcase our talented dogs and[...]
Clicker Gundog
Karen Pryor says—'At least once a month I get a poignant letter from someone who wants to train his or her new hunting dog with the clicker, instead of yelling and correction. Usually their hunting partners and associat[...]
Clicker Intermediate Training Level 3: Clicker Clips Companion Video
This video makes an excellent instructional companion guide to the book. Of particular value are the sessions that show sequences involved with shaping a behavior. Proper shaping [...]
Count on Me: Training for Reliability
Police officer and K9 trainer and consultant Steve White teaches clicker training to law enforcement personnel all over the US and Canada, in areas where reliability is a must: such as tracking and catching criminals and searching for illegal substances. [...]
Doors and Self Control
Learning how to perform a behavior is important, but fine-tuning that behavior through shaping is essential for assistance dogs. Teaching self-control will help to ensure both you and your dog
Find and Indicate: Scent Discrimination
Recognizing and indicating objects by their scent is a key skill for search and rescue work, competition obedience, and the ability of service dogs to locate lost or misplaced objects like wallets and keys. In this video lesson, you'll learn a technique f[...]
Foot Targeting
This clip begins by teaching how to charge the clicker before teaching the process of foot targeting. Foot targeting starts with simply touching a mat on the floor but quickly advances to more advanced targets including tap lights, toys, buttons, and door[...]
Learning Good Door Behavior
In this Video Lesson by Virginia Broitman and Sherri Lippman you'll see how to teach your dog really good door manners. "Really good" means your dog won't go out an open door unless first given permission to do so.
Learning to "Put": Putting an Object Away
Putting an object in a target location is an important skill for any assistance dog, not just for cleaning up toys, but also for objects that the handler needs help putting away. This video shows you how to teach your dog that skill in a generic environme[...]
Mack the Knife - Dance Routine
Michele Pouliot has trained dogs for more than three decades. Since first joining Guide Dogs for the Blind in 1974, she contributed to the organization in many different ways, and today is the director of research and development. Michele is also a [...]
Picking Up Special and Fragile Objects
Picking up keys and other common household items is very important, but service dogs also must be able to pick up difficult and fragile items like eyeglasses, papers, and credit cards. This clip shows you how to teach your dog to gently take and hold thes[...]
Pickup and Give Back: Training to Touch, Mouth, Take, Hold
This clip focuses on teaching your dog to gently take (pick up), hold, and release objects in its mouth. The lesson shows you how to build the kind of gentle take and hold technique needed for service-dog level work.
Positive Gun Dogs
Positive Gun Dogs is the first book on positive methods for sporting dogs ever published in the United States. If you'd like to learn to train your dog in a systematic, efficient manner, with force-free methods that you'll both enjoy, then [...]
Push The Light
For some dogs, this is a fun trick that can impress people, but for assistance dogs this is an essential skill needed as part of their repertoire. This video demonstrates how the skill of turning on and off lights can be trained whether or not the dog is [...]
Retrieving Lost Objects
This behavior has been back chained (taught in reverse) for solidity and is demonstrated through the behavior of finding and retrieving a lost object in an outdoor environment. Using a tea bag with a distinct smell attached to an object greatly helps a d[...]
Shaping the Skill of Pulling
Learn new and innovative ways for improving the skill of pulling, which is another necessity for all working service dogs. Watch as different pulling methods are demonstrated to ensure your dog will be able to assist you in a large variety of situations, [...]
Shaping the Skill of Pushing: Buttons, Doors, Drawers, and More
All assistance dogs should learn how to
Target Training
This clip illustrates teaching a puppy to touch something with his nose! One of the primary techniques used with service dogs, this behavior is a valuable asset to any puppy's repertoire.
Teach
Watch how quickly this important skill can be taught. Crossing behind a wheelchair is a necessary skill for a lot of service dogs to improve maneuverability in less-than-convenient places or during less-than-convenient events.
Teach 'Back Up'
Another entertaining trick from the Bow Wow series that can be combined with many other basic and advanced tricks. Once mastered, along with some creativity, the uses for this trick are endless.
Teach a 360 Degree Turn in Place
There are many reasons to want a dog to turn in place on cue. Sometimes a dog can get tangled in their own leash and need help to untangle themselves, or sometimes facing the opposite way is useful. Turning in place is an important skill to have in any do[...]
Teach a 360 Degree Turn in Place
There are many reasons to want a dog to turn in place on cue. Sometimes a dog can get tangled in their own leash and need help to untangle themselves, or sometimes facing the opposite way is useful. Turning in place is an important skill to have in any[...]
Teaching 'Down'
In this clip, you'll learn how to teach "down" in a variety of different ways with a variety of puppies. You'll also discover safe and fun ways for children of all ages to play with new puppies!
Teaching 'High-Five'
"High-five" is a fun trick that people of all ages love to show off to friends and neighbors. This valuable clip also works on improving ones clicker timing.
Teaching 'Sit'
Learn how to teach the "sit" command the clicker way, using a few different techniques. The examples show children of all ages using fun and creative ways to clicker train your puppies.
Teaching a 'Back up'
Dogs inherently know how to back up; getting out of the way of everyday things such as feet, wheels, and other things they want to avoid. Teaching a dog to back up when needed may be one of the single most essential foundation skills a service dog must le[...]
Teaching Curl in a Small Space
Getting out of the way is a critical life skill for service dogs. Whether in a restaurant, on a bus, in an airplane, or while waiting in an airport, but most especially in any kind of crowded situation, knowing how to curl up underneath furniture is a han[...]
Teaching Curl in a Small Space
Getting out of the way is a critical life skill for service dogs. Dogs and their handlers must make certain that bodies, tails, and feet do not become tripping hazards. In a restaurant, on a bus, in an airplane, waiting in an airport, in any c[...]
Teaching Retrieve and Playing Fetch
This clip demonstrates teaching retrieve and playing fetch
Teaching the Puppy Recall
This clip illustrates teaching the recall to puppies in a few different ways, all positive, and with a clicker. Demonstrated on a variety of puppies that have different ages and abilities, as well as children who also range in age.
Teaching the Puppy Recall
This clip illustrates teaching the recall to puppies in a few different ways, all positive, and with a clicker. Demonstrated on a variety of puppies that have different ages and abilities, as well as children who also range in age.
World-Class Stimulus Control: New Zealand
This exciting clip provides an example of stimulus control with working sheepdogs in New Zealand. Karen Pryor narrates during a real training session moving over 10,000 sheep in a breathtaking location with these remarkable, hard-working dogs.
Clicker Magic
Karen Pryor's classic introduction to clicker training for dogs and many other species. A great video for those interested in the ins and outs of the method.
Clicker Puppy
A wonderful video for clicker training puppies, with all the training done by children! Winner of the IPDTA Innovation Award.
Clicker Train Your Own Assistance Dog Part 1 of 4
This video, Basic Targeting and Advanced Applications, covers many topics for service and assistance dogs are including: how to train nose targeting and foot targeting behaviors, and using targeting to work with light switches, drawers, and cabin[...]
Clicker Train Your Own Assistance Dog Part 2 of 4
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Clicker Train Your Own Assistance Dog Part 3 of 4
The third video in this series The Marriage of Target and Retrieve focuses on teaching your dog the skills it needs to find, pick up, retrieve, and give back to you objects that are dropped or lost. This is a sophisticated group of behaviors but [...]
Clicker Train Your Own Assistance Dog Part 4 of 4
This video, Of Dogs, Doors, and Self-Control, will teach you how to use behaviors that your dog has already learned and modify them to assist you with everyday tasks. Watch how basic behaviors can be shaped into advanced techniques for advanced a[...]
Get a Cue
Karen Pryor discusses and demonstrates some of the important and often overlooked aspects of cues and cueing. How to transfer behavior to a new cue, and why; fading unwanted cues and prompts; using cues as reinforcers to build behavior chains and complex [...]
The How of Bow Wow
A Maxwell award-winning video that takes you from basic clicker training and useful behaviors like "come" and "leave it" to advanced concepts like fluency and training at a distance.
