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Clicker Training is showcased on ABC's Good Morning America

For those of you who already know the power of the clicker as an effective tool for training your dogs, we are ecstatic to share that Karen Pryor, who has been the pioneer-of-all things-positive in animal training for over 40 years, including the birth of clicker training, was featured recently on Good Morning America! See the link below for a video of her appearance, and an excerpt from her newly released book "Reaching the Animal Mind" where she describes her work at Wolf Park in Indiana, with a wolf named D'Artagnan. Karen describes her time training him using a whistle to "mark" the behavior she wanted him to repeat.

The concept of conditioned reinforcement works the same whether using a clicker, a whistle, or some other sound that's been paired with the delivery of food and as you will see when you read the excerpt...the results of her training session with D'Artagnan and what she was able to train him to do using the technique, are nothing short of absolutely, positively amazing!

For those of you who haven't yet experienced the awesome power of the clicker
for training your dogs, read and watch the video, and get ready to be awestruck!

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/story?id=7841863&page=1

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