Imagine your response if you saw this ad. But in reality, some dog trainers do use poultry to be able to hone their dog training techniques - using operant conditioning principles (a clicker and chicken feed). Very interesting.
Dog trainers - have you heard this, or do you think I’m just clucking around?Â
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1 Kat // Oct 3, 2006 at 10:42 pm
I’m a follower of clicker training and know my trainer went to at least one chicken clicker-training session. Want to learn more - read Don’t Shoot the Dog or a Dog and a Dophin by Karen Pryor.
2 Jo // Oct 3, 2006 at 11:07 pm
Bob Bailey’s Chicken Camps are well-known among clicker trainers — if you can train a chicken, you can train anything!. Methods using a bridging mechanism, such as a clicker or other marker, make it possible to train nearly any animal. Check out clickertraining.com for some fun videos of birds, fish, bunnies, horses and cats. Yes, cats. For even more fun check out catagility.com for some clicker-trained agility cats. You can train reptiles, too. Plus, many dance and gymnastics studios are using a form of marker training called TagTeach very successfully.
You don’t have to be a ‘professional’ trainer, either. Just patient. Our dogs, bunnies and a couple of our cats are all clicker trained.
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