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Mat Relaxation Techniques
Conditioning a reliable relaxation response can serve as a foundation behavior with many practical applications, especially for dogs with noise phobia, resource guarding, and...
Use Pattern Games to Build Your Dog’s Confidence
Pattern games create a “safety net” of predictability that can help a worried dog process information about the environment from a place of confidence....
Resource-Guarding Cases in Real-Time
Resource guarding is among the most common issues causing dog guardians to reach out for support from a behavioral consultant....
Working with Shy or Skittish Animals
The challenges for trainers who work with animals that display shy or fearful behavior are to manage the learning environment carefully and to design sessions that create...
Enhance Trust and Improve Results with Start Button Behaviors
What happens when you give learners the ability to direct the pace and progress of a procedure activity? You elevate the level of dialogue between animals and trainers,...
Dog and Cat Introductions
Introducing cats and dogs doesn’t need to involve the proverbial problems with the support of careful management and training. In this video, Laura Monaco Torelli demonstrates...
Problem Solved!
Sometimes the solutions to our training problems can elude us and it can be helpful to get a fresh perspective. Beginner or expert, if you’ve had a training challenge that has...
Bonus Time! Live and Unscripted
In this unscripted course format, ClickerExpo LIVE registrants will have the opportunity to ask questions or be a fly on the wall and listen to a spontaneous and candid...
Help Your Training of Any Species Take Flight
In so many ways, training birds is like training any other animal. However, when you work with an animal that can simply fly away at any moment, there are some parts of...
The Value of Non-Auditory Communication
Recognizing and understanding that dogs rely heavily on visual communication can enhance your skills with both deaf and hearing dogs....
Using Distance as a Reinforcer
At ClickerExpo LIVE, Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz will show how distance can be used as a reinforcer to shape friendly behaviors that replace fearful or aggressive behaviors....
Teaching a Head Tuck Bow
Whether training management skills or developing precision behaviors for a variety of scenarios, platforms offer strong communication tools for our “teaching conversations”...
We’re Letting the Cat Out of the Bag
It shouldn’t be a surprise… but cats love the mental stimulation of adventures, as well as training and performing, if they are exposed properly (early or late)!...
Training Can Be All Fun and Games!
Looking to bring more fun and games into your training? Better yet, games you can integrate within your training classes and share with clients? Give Terry Ryan’s Personal...
Build Confidence, Focus, and Precision with Canine Fitness
Being in balance physically and emotionally is a direct contrast to being over-excited, reactive, and stressed. Helping dogs find and maintain balance requires a certain...
Set a Strong Foundation for a R+ Program
Whether you are working with a dog or a cat, a horse or a goat, a tiger or an eagle, training has to begin somewhere. But where? What do great training session starts have in...
Real Skills, Fake Dogs
Practicing real training skills with stuffed animals, puppets, props, and helpful humans may look silly -- but it’s also fun and totally useful! Why? It helps to build both...
Puppy Start Right One-to-One: Private Lessons
Providing puppies with positive, proper exposure to novel situations and practicing prevention exercises, such as teaching a puppy to enjoy having people around his food bowl...
Living Room Games that Supercharge Scent Work Skills
Looking for a boredom buster as the cold weather approaches? You can bring the thrill of nose work right to your living room with simple games that supercharge key...
Love Those Learning Labs
Do you learn better by doing? ClickerExpo LIVE has you covered with our virtual Learning Labs! During these courses, you’ll be able to participate alongside top trainers and...
Defensive and Emergency Leash-Handling
Whether or not you have a reactive dog, taking a simple walk can quickly turn scary! By learning defensive and emergency handling techniques, you can keep yourself, and the...
Set Your Animal Up for Success with SMART Shaping Plans
Skilled trainers know the time it takes to plan shaping sessions is just as important as the training time itself....
Chill Out with Mat-Relaxation Techniques
Tension, stress, and hyperarousal are common obstacles for the successful treatment of fear, anxiety, and aggression problems in dogs. Teaching a dog how to truly relax, both...
Exercises for Working with Reactive Dogs
Do you learn better by doing? Roll up your sleeves and practice the exercises off-camera with your own dogs (reactive or not!) at home alongside Emma and the Spotlight Teams....
Cooperative Care at Home for Real-World Applications
With the colder weather approaching (or really any time of year!), it’s a good idea to start preparing your dog for cooperative paw care....
Look At That! Games We’ll Play at ClickerExpo LIVE
Look At That, or “LAT,” is one of Leslie McDevitt’s very popular counter-conditioning games, and at ClickerExpo LIVE you can watch your dog increase confidence in a stressful...
Aged and Engaged
AGED AND ENGAGEDLORI STEVENS Although we can’t stop the aging process, we can often slow down some of its mental and physical effects. With regular fitness training dogs can...
Essential Skills for Behavior-Change in the Shelter
Join Lindsay Wood Brown and a shelter team to explore how to accomplish behavior change efficiently, effectively, and practically - live in the shelter setting....
Training Game for a Strong Foundation
Ready for a fun game you can play RIGHT NOW to build your clicker mechanical skills? Grab your clicker and get ready… here we go!...
Cat Trick Training
Why let dogs have all the fun?! In ClickerExpo’s first-ever cat-centric Learning Lab, Melissa Millett will take you through the underlying principles of training cats (hint:...
The Counting Game
Simple ✅ Fun ✅ Effective ✅ This training game checks all the boxes! In the video below, you’ll see Chirag Patel use The Counting Game to teach a “drop” behavior, “follow me,”...
Building Behavior Through Shaping
Some of the most common questions about clicker training are about obtaining new, desirable behavior to mark and reinforce. At ClickerExpo LIVE, Laura VanArendonk Baugh will...
Unlocking Enthusiasm in the Ring
Are precision and enthusiasm opposites? Do you have to pick one to sacrifice? Hannah Branigan doesn’t think so!...
Dancing with Horses
Join Peggy Hogan for her ClickerExpo LIVE Dances with Horses - Moving at Liberty Dem-OH! Session as she (and a few of her horse-trainer friends) demonstrate how horses have...
Teach Start-Button Behaviors at Home
Start buttons are integral to the training philosophy of dynamic duo Eva Bertilsson and Emelie Johnson Vegh - they help us get behaviors we want, give the animal control, can...
Reactivity Training in Real-Time
At ClickerExpo LIVE you’ll get the chance to join Kathy Sdao for an urban walk with her dog Smudge, who has a history of barking and lunging at dogs—and sometimes unfamiliar...
The Power of Reward Location Communication
Delivery location affects learners in different ways; it can raise energy, prompt stillness, reset the learner for the next repetition, support a specific position, and much more....
Get the Inside Scoop on ClickerExpo LIVE
Watch the video to learn what Ken Ramirez is most looking forward to at ClickerExpo LIVE....
Viewing Human Mistakes as Feedback
As positive reinforcement trainers, we don’t dwell on an animal’s mistakes or punish them, we set up the environment to increase the likelihood for success the next time. But...
Improving Husbandry Behaviors in Any Environment
Among them, you can catch Laura Monaco Torelli, who cleverly incorporates uncooked pasta noodles into her nail trim shaping plan. Why? Trimming the noodles helps to build...
