Don'T Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor

Don'T Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor

Karen Pryor's clear and entertaining explanation of behavioral training methods made Don't Shoot the Dog a bestselling classic with revolutionary insights into animal--and human--behavior.

In her groundbreaking approach to improving behavior, behavioral biologist Karen Pryor says, Whatever the task, whether keeping a four-year-old quiet in public, housebreaking a puppy, coaching a team, or memorizing a poem, it will go fast, and better, and be more fun, if you know how to use reinforcement.

Now Pryor clearly explains the underlying principles of behavioral training and reveals how this art can be applied to virtually any common situation. And best of all, she tells how to do it without yelling threats, force, punishment, guilt trips--or shooting the dog. From the eight methods for putting an end to all kinds of undesirable behavior to the ten laws of shaping behavior, Pryor helps you combat your own addictions and deal with such difficult problems as a moody spouse, an impossible teen, or an aged parent. Plus, there's also incredibly helpful information on house training the dog, improving your tennis game, keeping the cat off the table, and much more

In the course of becoming a renowned dolphin trainer, Karen Pryor learned that positive reinforcement.is even more potent that prior scientific work had suggested.Don't Shoot the Dog looks like the very best on the subject--a full-scale mind-changer (The Coevolution Quarterly). Learn why pet owners rave, This book changed our lives and how these pioneering techniques can work for you, too.

Pryor, Karen: - Karen Pryor is a behavioral biologist with an international reputation in marine mammal biology and behavioral psychology. She is a founder and leading proponent of clicker training, a training system based on operant conditioning (isolate wanted behaviors and ignore the unwanted) and the all-positive methods developed by marine mammal trainers. Pryor is the CEO of KCPT/Sunshine Books, Inc., a publishing, training product, and online company. In addition to her bestselling Don't Shoot the Dog, Pryor wrote Nursing Your Baby (more than 2 million copies in print) along with several other books and many scientific papers and popular articles on learning and behavior. She has three grown children and lives in Boston with two clicker-trained dogs and a clicker-trained cat.

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ISBN 13	9781982106461
ISBN 10	1982106468
Title	Don'T Shoot the Dog
Author	Karen Pryor
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2019-12-03
Number of pages	240
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