Courteous Canine, Inc - Book Review of Kay Laurence's Clicker Training Series

This series is an excellent way to learn shaping. Each book takes you step by step through insightful exercises that range from foundation skills to novice and then to intermediate trainer. The first book "Clicker Foundation Training" gives you a good set of shaping skills, such as free shaping a new behavior without luring or target sticks, the presentation of cues, clicks, and food, the uses of luring and targeting, adding cues and other essential skills for shaping. These skills are further refined in the next two books. These books are unique not only in content and instructional format but also teach ways to measure behavior and accelerate progress towards your shaping objectives. Kay Laurence provides the reader with an enjoyable and effective journey into the world of shaping.

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