Product Description

Shaping top performance positively! In this breakthrough book, Morgan Spector shows you how and why to use clicker training, the technology of operant conditioning and positive reinforcement, to train you dog. Whether you're startingoff with a new puppy or headed for the Obedience ring, these step-by-step instructions will work for you.

You'll learn how you can use positive reinforcers, instead of force and punishment, to build reliable performance at every level of training.

If you just want a hassle-free, truly enjoyable companion dog, this book will show you how, even if you've never trained before. And if you have visions of going all the way to top scores and Obedience championships - with a happy, eager, positively trained canine partner - go for it!

Here's your travel guide for a wonderful journey.

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33291 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-20
• Released on: 2006-07-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages

About the Author
Morgan Spector is a practicing attorney and respected obedience competitor, trainer and teacher in Southern California. In 1993 he came in contact with Karen Pryor and has been a dedicated clicker trainer since. He is well known ini dog-training circles as an advocate and expositor of operant conditiong techniques through his participation on clicker e-mail lists and his regular column in the NADOI News and the Clicker Journal.

In the latter part of 1998 Morgan began consulting with Canine Companions for Independence together with Bob and Marian Bailey to help CCI incorporate operant conditioning into their service dog training program.

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Customer Reviews

Not too impressive in person either.
I met Mr. Spector and we had a long and rather uninspiring talk about various methods of dog training. To be honest I had no idea who he was, the name didn't ring a bell and I've been training dogs for decades. He recommended his book and I borrowed it from a fellow trainer. I was as unimpressed with the book as I was with him and can not recommend it.

Not a bedtime read!
This book is absolutely packed with information and is well written. This is not a bedtime read! There is so much information in each chapter than I found myself finishing a chapter in bed and thinking to myself "what did I just read?"

If you want a simple book for clicker training, this is not it. This book explains WHY clicker training works and WHY your dog didn't do what you wanted to do, with logical and scientific methodology.

Overall an excellent book that I would highly recommend to anybody with some degree of reading comprehension.

This book covers it all
and then some. I've not made it all the way through yet, but I'm getting there. Some of it takes awhile to "digest" as it can be a little too wordy at times.