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Summary: Clicker training is just amazing.... the book is OK
Review: Clicker training is really amazing. You can teach your dog just about anything, as soon as you get the idea behind the method. The book brings lots of tricks you can train your dog. One section that is missing is how to train the dog for a dog show. Luck enough, and as exposed, you can do anything as long as you understand the reasoning behind the clicker. My first Best in Show was attained after I start to use this method to train my dogs to the shows. The other breeders were amazed!!!
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Summary: Clicking with Your Dog
Review: It took me 5 minutes upon opening Clicking with Your Dog to realize it was the book we've been dreaming of for our clients. Five minutes later we'd already ordered 100 copies. This book gets the average American started on the right foot with clicker training. It doesn't bog down the people who "just want to know how to do it" yet directs those of us who can't get enough to further information. This book is also excellent for children to get started training and communicating with their dogs. I can only hope 4-H training groups will make it their "training manual". The majority of owners who come to see us for assistance with their pet's behavior problem leave with a clicker in their hand. They will now be leaving with a clicker in one hand and Clicking with Your Dog in the other hand.
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Summary: The Book We've Been Waiting For!
Review: It took me five minutes of looking through "Clicking with Your Dog" to realize it's the book we've been dreaming of for our clients. Moments later we'd already ordered 100 copies. This book gets the average American started on the right foot with clicker training. It doesn't bog down the people who "just want to know how to do it" yet directs those of us who can't get enough to further information. It provides excellent guidance to children who are beginning to train and communicate with their dogs. I can only hope 4-H training groups will make it their manual. The majority of owners who come to see us for assistance with their pet's behavior problems leave with a clicker in their hand. Now they'll be leaving with a clicker in one hand and "Clicking with Your Dog" in the other hand.
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Summary: A Great book for the Clicking Beginner!
Review: Peggy Tillman's book is a great starter book for someone who is new to clicker training. Tillman sets out her book in a very simple and easy to read fashion. If you're looking for a good book on the basics of clicker training, you could do a lot worse than to purchase this book. The only "beef" I have with this book is that sometimes it overdoes the simplicity. For example, the illustrations are almost too basic - they seem to be designed for a child! The idea of the illustrations seems to be that you don't have to read any of the book, rather you can just look at the pictures. However, with something like clicker training you really need to READ and understand the principles behind the training, not just look at pictures, so I think the book's intention sort of misses the mark. However, I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to clicker beginners!
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Summary: I Only Wish I'd Written It!
Review: The ideal training guide for everyone; especially those who don't have time or interest to sit down and pour through long blocks of text, or highly technical writing. Tillman's clear, concise, easy-to-follow illustrations make comprehension a snap, for every type of learner. This is the book my students find the easiest to follow, and it's absolutely marvelous for children. Feedback from dog training students I mentor worldwide consistently note that the book's presentation style makes it impossible to put down. Because each chapter can be read individually, those who like to "skip around" instead of reading from beginning to end will still find it simple to follow the step-by-step directions. The pictures are clutter-free, elegant and simple, helping the reader focus easily on the behavior being shown. One example of its effectiveness is how accessible it is for those with learning disabilities. My husband, severely dyslexic, cannot read blocks of text without great difficulty. Yet, I was able to randomly open the book, give him a clicker and treats, and watch him "shape" the behavior just by following the illustrations. He didn't need to read any of the accompanying text (which is concise, without a wasted word) in order to get the behavior from the dog. Students with Attention Deficit Disorder find Tillman's book to be a guide written just for them: it moves so quickly, is so simple and easy to follow, that there is no time to get bored, no time for the mind to wander. ADHD students who have never been able to make it through other fine training guides seem to relish Tillman's book from beginning to end. It's just plum FUN. Tillman's message all the way through the book is that training a dog should not be stressful for the dog or the human, but a dance of joy, fun every step of the way. Of all the books I have recommended over the years, this is the book I am wildly enthusiastic about, as it opens up the science of shaping behavior to the casual pet owner as well as the serious performance enthusiast. Void of techical terminology that sometimes confuses those just learning how to clicker train, Tillman present science in a way anyone can understand--have a darned good time, to boot! Tillman not only addresses teaching all the basic behaviors for "good manners," but shows how to solve behavior problems without resorting to force, coercion and pain. How effective do I think Tillman's information is? With the information presented in this book, I was able to turn around a fear-agressive dog who went on to win the National Service Dog of the Year award, as well as become a certified therapy dog. When traditional correction-based training only made his problem behaviors worse, it was following the guidelines Tillman offers that saved this dog's life and helped him become such a phenomenal service dog, therapy dog, school demo dog and marvelous, loving companion. And, he was the first toy breed service dog to help carry the 2002 Winter Olympic Torch! Buy the book. Give it away to friends who have dogs with problem behaviors. Buy it for yourself, your kids, for people who are frustrated in their attempts to change unwanted behaviors into wanted responses. It works. Oh, does it work!
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Summary: An incredible resource
Review: This book is fantastic! It gives you many ways to teach the dog the same thing -- I can experiment to see which methods will work best with my dog and utilize that option. Additionally, Tillman offers a quick resource guide for solving problem behavior. Combining those techniques with a comprehensive socialization program and you will have a wonderfully well-behaved pet in no time! And it's fun and positive!
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Summary: clicking is soooooooo easy now!!!!!!!!
Review: this is the best book on dog clicker training ever. It will be the first and last book that you will read! now all you will need is the clicker. ( got mine at petco for $1.20 other places had the for 5.00-15.00.)i highly reccomend this book.
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Summary: The best Introduction to clicker training
Review: This is the book I will be sending home with my next litter of puppies.
Clicker training is a wonderful method of teaching dogs - and I have over 10 agility titles last year to prove it works! I came to clicker training because it was the fastest and most effective way to teach my dogs new things. I wanted a beginners book that would help my new puppy owners start clicking with their puppies. Peggy Tillman's book introduces clicker training without all the technical terms that can get in the way of trying it. The format is a lot of fun as you don't have to read it in order, which is great for people with short attention spans (like me!).
The illustrated format makes it so much easy to grasp the concepts. I sent excerpts home with this litter and got lots of good feedback. Definitely a great book!
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Summary: An inspired guide to training dogs and motivating people
Review: Tillman's book is clear, uncluttered, and beautifully illustrated. It's well organized and easily referenced. It has aspects of a cookbook combined with insights into the nature of the bond between humans and their companion dogs. Best of all, it turns dog-training into a pleasurable shared activity rather than a chore. If you don't have a dog but have one or two uncontrollable people in your life, I'm sure it would work with them too!
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Summary: Easy to understand, helpful and effective
Review: What I like about this book is the problems and solutions chart. Want your dog to stop jumping on people, go to X page. etc...
I think that a good clicker program is a great compliment to using some limited negative reenforcement techniques (choker..etc)
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