<p>A trainer and consultant for nearly 40 years, Ken Ramirez is well regarded as a leader in the animal training world. In his bestselling book Animal Training: Successful Animal Management Through Positive Reinforcement, Ken has selected and organized almost 600 pages of what in his opinion are the best papers, articles, and presentations on the topic of reinforcement-based training, each making a special point, each worth some serious attention. Here’s a chance to really explore the thinking and the training protocols involved in reinforcement-based training—whether it’s your dog or a cranky elephant or a group of killer whales. Contributors include the Baileys, many ClickerExpo faculty members, scientists and graduate students, dog trainers, dolphin trainers, zoo behaviorists, and Ken Ramirez himself. Karen Pryor’s work and references to Don’t Shoot the Dog appear throughout. This is a year or more of entertaining bedside reading for any training buff, and an important resource for the serious student of operant conditioning. Many of the reprinted articles include data, graphs, training logs, and other background material, and detailed references. A trainer and consultant for nearly 40 years, Ken Ramirez is well regarded as a leader in the animal training world. In his bestselling book Animal Training: Successful Animal Management Through Positive Reinforcement, Ken has selected and organized almost 600 pages of what in his opinion are the best papers, articles, and presentations on the topic of reinforcement-based training, each making a special point, each worth some serious attention. Here’s a chance to really explore the thinking and the training protocols involved in reinforcement-based training—whether it’s your dog or a cranky elephant or a group of killer whales. Contributors include the Baileys, many ClickerExpo faculty members, scientists and graduate students, dog trainers, dolphin trainers, zoo behaviorists, and Ken Ramirez himself. Karen Pryor’s work and references to Don’t Shoot the Dog appear throughout. This is a year or more of entertaining bedside reading for any training buff, and an important resource for the serious student of operant conditioning. Many of the reprinted articles include data, graphs, training logs, and other background material, and detailed references.</p>

Animal Training: Successful Animal Management Through Positive Reinforcement

Ramirez, Ken

Sports & Outdoors

First Stone Publishing

The jumping drills in this book are based on patterns from letters of the alphabet. Their purpose is to help you become more imaginative when setting up practice drills for yourself, or for your students, and to familiarize you with common obstacle patterns seen on agility courses. Each letter focuses on specific handling skills or dog skills, and uses a minimal amount of space and a minimal number of jumps (5 jumps is the average). The intent of using a familiar pattern for each setup, like the outline of an alphabet letter, is to aid you in remembering each pattern of jumps, so that eventually you can associate the pattern of the letter with the associated drills. Alphabet drills are designed so that they are useful for all levels of agility handlers. If you're new to the sport, there are drills to help you and your dog learn the basics of front and rear crosses, lead-out pivots, threadles, serpentine handling, pinwheels, 270s, and more-you can truly train the full spectrum of necessary handling skills with this book. If you're an advanced competitor, you'll find more technical drills for maintaining and tuning up your skills, as well as problem solving. Regardless of which handling method you use, Alphabet Drills will provide years of material for maintaining your agility skills and also training new skills. You'll never have to worry about what to practice again! Problems getting your dog in the correct entrance of the tunnel Do the R drills for a week. Wide front crosses or problems with lead-out pivots T is your drill. Does your dog spin in the wrong direction when you do a rear cross Work on J drills.

Alphabet Drills

Gyes, Nancy

The sport of dog agility has changed dramatically over the last 10 years. Improved training and handling techniques have produced much better communication between us and our dogs. As a result, dogs are traveling at much greater speeds. Course designs have become more complicated and the jumping challenges our dogs face have significantly increased in level of difficulty, variety, and frequency. Multiple changes of direction, variable distances, wraps greater than 180°, pull-throughs (threadles), and every imaginable approach (including angled and landing side), all contribute to more difficult jumping efforts. Having the option of a front or backside approach leads to tougher discrimination challenges. The mechanics of these more difficult jumping skills are not only technically challenging from a handling aspect, they can be physically demanding for the dog.

Mastering Jumping Skills

Mecklenberg, Linda

94 EXERCISES TO IMPROVE YOUR DOG'S WEAVE POLES!! The weave pole " homework drills" presented here are designed to make the most of your training time. The 94 exercises are designed to ensure that your dog is capable of finding difficult entries regardless of his speed ( or yours) , train your dog to continue weaving with multiple distractions, and train him to weave fast and confidently even if you're not running parallel to the weave pole. Each exercise is focused on a different skill that's required for weave poles that wow! This will not only improve your dogs overall understanding of weaving, it is a very efficient way for you to train! The exercises are designed to train dogs to be faster, more independent, more accurate, and more consistent while in the weave poles!

Weaves That Wow

Shyne, Amanda

<p>Since 2007, when Control Unleashed: Creating a Focused and Confident Dog was first published, the science-and the art-of Control Unleashed has been guiding handlers all over the world as they help their "dogs with issues" learn how to relax, focus, and work off-leash reliably in stimulating or stressful situations. In her third book, Control Unleashed: Reactive to Relaxed, Leslie McDevitt discusses her exciting new additions to the Control Unleashed training program, as well as new perspectives and revisions of the foundation behaviors and core games. The new concepts and techniques will support you in teaching your dog life skills and coping skills so that he is comfortable in the world, building relationships, empowering your dog, and creating a two-way system of communication between you and your dog. Rather than being bound to a world where people are taught to think of training as nothing more than cue-and-response, the Control Unleashed program boldly takes us even further into the realm of conversational training-a style of interaction where both the handler and dog can cue each other to perform a behavior and give feedback, and where the dog takes the driver's seat and directs his counterconditioning process. Letting the dog make choices and actively participate not only gives the dog control over his own learning, but it also establishes trust and fosters a spirit of communication. And, it makes humans more humane.</p>

Control Unleashed Reactive To Relaxed

McDevitt, Leslie

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Diamond, Joan

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Green, Marjorie C.

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Julia Barnes

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101 Facts about Guide Dogs

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