Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gregg Flowers Question: We just got a puppy and I have a friend who swears by something called "clicker training." What is clicker ...

In her new book, Reaching the Animal Mind ($25, Scribner), Karen Pryor offers a lively, wide-ranging overview of the use of operant conditioning for training, well, nearly any animal you can think of.

I recently was a witness to a rather heated argument between two dog trainers about the relative effectiveness of "clicker training" compared to "marker training." After much noise and hand waving, it ...

I was watching an intermediate level dog obedience training class where the dogs were being trained to respond to hand signals. Floating over the usual class related sounds produced by people's voices ...

Cats are independent creatures and have a mind of their own, which makes training them quite challenging. But with the right approach, undesirable behaviour can be curbed—using just a small device ...

Clicker training has been a popular form of training for decades and is used in zoos, aquariums, and shelters. Only a handful of studies have investigated the efficacy of the clicker-training method ...