Learn why clicker training for dogs is the fastest, most effective way to teach your puppy. Tips, science, and real-world advice.

Most of the jobs I have held in my young adult life were centered around the animal care field. Working at animal shelters, you see a variety of behavioral issues that not only cause animals to be ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clicker training is a popular dog training technique, but many people don't realize it's also one of the best ways to train a cat.

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 ...