feed'Clicker Training' shows promise with aggressive dogs - PittsburghLIVE.com
Click to Calm: Healing the Aggressive Dog by Emma Parsons
'Clicker training' shows promise with aggressive dogs: When Massachusetts dog trainer Emma Parsons taught a not-so-old dog a new trick, she learned a big lesson herself. It eventually led to a training method that teaches aggressive dogs how to calm down, a book on the subject (Click to Calm: Healing the Aggressive Dog), and workshops.... “I just wanted to reinforce the absence of behavior,” Parsons says about the twist she put on the well-known process known as “clicker training.” “The best thing about her system is that there is really a solution for the aggressive dog,” says Barb Levenson, owner of the Barb Levenson Dog Training Center in Oakmont.... “And you can see it's more effective than the old method of just beating it out of them.”Um. That other thing? The “beating it out of them?” That's not even a method. For anything. Don't do that. That just makes you mad. That just makes you fearful. That just makes you want to tear the bejesus out of something that seems otherwise solid. Like a dining room table.
—Pretzel the Labherd (Lab-Shepherd)
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