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 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 ...

These dog training techniques help correct bad behavior quickly without yelling, using positive reinforcement, consistency, ...

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 ...

Service dog training‌ is more intense than you might think. Potential service dogs receive one to two years of rigorous training and may be rejected at any point. At most organizations, only a small ...