Clicker Training at the Clever K9 in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada

Clicker Training Books

by Kay Laurence

Foundation Book
The Level 1 Foundation Course teaches the key skills of using rewards, how and why the clicker works, adding names to behaviours, basic shaping and targeting techniques. 15 easy to follow recipes teach you how to communicate with your dog through some great tricks and essential management tasks.

Novice Book
The Level 2 Novice Course builds on the Foundation Course and teaches how to break down behaviours into small achievable steps and develop shaping with structure. How rewards can affect behaviours and using shaping to acquire precision. Finally taking this creative and careful development process through to ultra reliable and strong behaviours and at the same time having great fun with the dog.

Intermediate Book
The Level 3 Intermediate Course teaches you how to plan your dog’s learning by carefully balancing teaching and training, luring and shaping. Complex behaviours that are grouped together in sequences or merged as one behaviour are exploded, explained and re-collected with understanding and precision. These skills are developed through recording and analysing data which leads onto weaning the dog off the clicker and short term rewards. The unique “micro-shaping” will blow your mind with its power for creating accurate behaviours with the dog’s cognitive abilities at full strength.  

Dances With Dogs
Dances with Dogs is the essential book if your want to train your dog a multitude of moves and poses and tricks and walks … just for the fun of it!
We teach dogs to 'walk on sunshine', to circle and twirl, to bend and stretch. All the moves you can enjoy with your dog at any time, or follow on to join the new sport.
For Paws n Music, for freestyle, for heelwork and for dressage, this book goes into clear detail how to lay down the foundation moves and build a full repertoire to suit any dog, any handler, rap or blues, country or classical.
We recommend you acquire the Foundation and Novice Clicker Training skills before starting on Dances with Dogs.
The only thing I can guarantee is you'll laugh like you haven't done in ages!