Just found out about this concept. Basically, adapting clicker training to use with children - and adults, and any other age of student ( Read more... )

Omg we have a major storm brewing right now. Like it's about as dark outside right now as it would be at 5AM. And it only just started raining ( Read more... )

A few videos of Tripper!

From the beach:

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And mom taped this last night; I bring Tripper some munchkins after work every night. This has taught him to tell time somehow, and he gets excited around 9:45 every night, although I don't get home until about 10:10. I've been working on him being a bit more relaxed about the donuts; just a few weeks ago ( Read more... )

Tripper and I have the house to ourselves a bit, so I took the opportunity to do some training with him :D I couldn't find his clicker, but he caught on to my verbal marker ('yes!') immediately. We ran through some things he knows already to get him warmed up (touch, down, sit) and to try and work a bit more on distinguishing between 'sit' and ' ( Read more... )

So I made the decidedly un-thought-through choice of reading a bit of a violently transphobic blog (nothing like reading that a person wishes all trans people were dead! Certainly brightened up my afternoon!) which I am not linking because TBH spreading hate and giving it attention is just not my MO. So instead, as I was thinking about this earlier ( Read more... )