Product Description

"Clicking with Your Dog" is the answer for all pet owners who want a dog to be a real partner and friend. The author's step-by-step illustrations explain the clicking process more clearly than ever before. Soon you will truly understand your dog, and, thanks to the clicker, your dog will understandd you!"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14184 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-01
• Released on: 2006-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 209 pages

From Library Journal
Clicker training is a method of teaching behavior to dogs using positive reinforcement. The successive approximation of desired behavior is marked with a clicker and rewarded with a treat, a toy, or a pat. Inappropriate behavior is ignored, not punished. In 1985, Karen Pryor published the seminal work on this method, Don't Shoot the Dog (Bantam), and issued a revision in 1999. Both editions are highly theoretical and are aimed at the educated, informed lay reader. Tillman, an ergonomics illustrator as well as a dog trainer and clicker-training instructor, has made Pryor's principles and techniques accessible to the rank amateur. Using easily understandable text and clear, step-by-step drawings, she guides the novice through all the steps necessary to teach dogs almost 100 different behaviors, from basic obedience to housebreaking to tricks. She also applies the principles to the elimination of problem behavior. While Paul Owens's The Dog Whisperer (LJ 10/1/99) covered much the same subject matter, Tillman's book teaches the skills through illustrations. Highly recommended for public libraries. Florence Scarinci, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, NY
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author
Peggy Larson Tillman created and wrote Clicking With Your Dog for her dog training classes. She realized her students needed a clearly written and illustrated book to help them learn and share the fun of clicker training.

Peggy drew on her knowledge of making designs user-friendly to make her book fun and easy to use. Peggy and her husband, a human factors/ergonomics engineer, have helped design systems, machines, and environments so they are easy for people to use. They have written two leading human factors/ergonomic books published by McGraw-Hill.

Peggy Tillman has a teaching credential and a behavioral psychology degree and worked for many years as an elementary school teacher. She found that clicker training fits exactly with her concept of how children should be treated --- fairly, and with lots of opportunities to succeed. Peggy went on to teach classes to pet owners, and in the process designed, wrote, and illustrated this visual instruction book.

Customer Reviews

SCAM ALERT - Do NOT Get Fooled by This Method
This is the sister of cookie training. Why use a clicker when you can use your voice? You are not mute for crying out loud. You can mark a command, a behavior, or even a trick much better with your voice. Besides, this method is for dog owners with three arms. One, to hold those treats, two to click around, and three to hold on to that leash.

If you truly believe that dogs like to please us, then why rely on a clicker or even a treat? Think about it. Your dog should sit because you said so and not because of a bacon strip. How I know this??? Because I actually train dogs for a living and am one the top in my field. These guys tell you to give your dog treats just for being alive. You will end up with a fat dog that drools and licks it's mouth every time you ask it to sit or lay down. It doesn't take much skill or talent to bribe a dog with treats and then call it dog training.

Clicker training at a glimpse
The illustrations and the short, exact written instructions make it a wonderful handbook both for novices and experienced people who want to clicker train pets.

Insightful, Great Book
This woman really knows dogs. Her training methods really work. This book definitely changed the way I relate to my dogs, and it made training so much easier.