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For those of you who know clicker training, this is just outstanding lateral thinking for creating a solid heel
For the rest of you… clicker training is the way forward for dog training. Or horse training. Or cats. Or guinea pigs. Or people…. or anything else more sentient than an amoeba… (actually, you can train amoebas by operant conditioning, which is what this is, I’m just not sure why you’d want to…)
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very nice example of good clicker training principles!
Mary
Well….I didn’t know we can train people that way
It’s called TAG-Teach - works very well for young gymnasts, I gather, but also brilliant for all kinds of person -teaching. Karen Pryor talks about it in her book ‘Don’t Shoot the Dog’ which brought clicker work out of sea-world and into the ordinary world. Well worth a read.