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Clicker Training for Obedience: Shaping Top Performance-Positively | 
 enlarge | Author: Morgan Spector
Publisher: Sunshine Books, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 27603
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 276
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8 x 0.8
MPN: KPBK404
ISBN: 0962401781
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.70887
EAN: 9780962401787
ASIN: 0962401781
Publication Date: July 20, 2006
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Product Description
In his much anticipated book, Morgan Spector answers all the familiar questions about clicker training: "Why can't I just use my voice?" "What if the dog doesn't obey?" "When can I get rid of the food?" Morgan will show you how to use clicker training, not just to solve problems, but to avoid them in the first place. With a focus on training for the Obedience ring, you might think this book is only for the future Obedience dog. Wrong! Your companion dog will also benefit from the chapters on heeling, turning, sits, downs, jumping, drop on recall, scenting, and much, much more. Bottom line: this is a great book! ( 1999, Paperback, 267 pages)
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 Not too impressive in person either. December 11, 2008
The Big Dog's Mom
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! May 3, 2008
Mr. Tim (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 August 6, 2007
E. L. Jenkins (SC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
The Bible of Clicker Training March 30, 2007
E. Hughes (CA United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have never seen a dog training book like this. My dog is a crazy, hyper maniac without any focus but since I've been following this book he is learning insanely fast and having a blast doing it. I trained him to follow the target stick and the first time I ever tried it he heeled BEAUTIFULLY with it. Left turn, right turn, about turn, he was staying with me without crowding me, lagging or anything. He had no leash on! He was just following the stick! When I took the target stick away HE WAS STILL DOING IT! He had VERY little heeling experience before this. All I could get out of him was to maybe follow me somewhere in the realm of heel position for about 10 feet. Turns were out of the question. Not anymore! It's like....the target stick finally clarified it in his mind.
If I want to show him how to position himself for any behavior I just lead him with the target stick. Where the nose goes the body follows. He remembers the motion. Once he learns the que I can take the stick away. It's amazing.
For every dog I've ever worked with...clicker training has been a way of great motivation and very clear communication...hence the fact dogs catch on fast...but no book I read compares to this one. It's the closest you can get to having a very wise trainer with you showing you. He's very detailed and tries so hard to save you from making any mistakes that you will regret later. He helps prepare you for the path ahead and keep from digging any pits you'll later fall into. Having never competed in anything other than Rally and Conformation I need this!
You see...clicker training is a VERY POWERFUL, VERY EFFECTIVE, VERY FAST training method....but it's only as good as the trainer! You need knowledge! This gives you that knowledge!
I will update this review after I start trialing. I am certain I will be very successful. I've been to trials and the biggest problem I see is the dog not having what's expected of him clear in his mind to start with.
 European view September 29, 2005
Jouko Hoo (Finland)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
From european point of view the drawback of the book is that it describes the tasks of american rules for obedience trial. As we in europe have different set of tasks in our obedience trial the book did not fill the need for specific instructions on those tasks. I was also looking for more structured and simplified clear instructions in the book things are more of discussed through. Still the book was worth the money paid for it. It has lots of grounds for why to do this way. The basics of the book is fluencies on what the obedience tasks are based on and those same fluencies are still usefull with european rules too.
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