by Karen Pryor

Don't Shoot the Dog! is now available as a 6 CD audio book. Listen to it on the way to work or while traveling to your next dog show. Narrated by Karen Pryor, complete and unabridged, with additional comments not included in the book. Pryor clearly explains the underlying principles of behavioral training and through numerous fascinating examples 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. Don't Shoot the Dog! will discuss:

• Reinforcement: better than rewards
• Shaping: developing super performance without strain and pain
• Stimulus control: cooperation without coercion
• Untraining: using reinforcement to get rid of behavior your don't want
• Reinforcement in the real world
• Clicker training: a new technology

Run time: 6 hours, 46 minutes