In competitive settings, as in everyday life, the need for great stays and great starts is frequent, but the achievement is frequently elusive.

Early intervention, focused on exploration and prevention, is the key to averting behavioral problems and relinquishment.

Karen Pryor takes you from the earliest days of her own first uses of operant conditioning with dolphins to the scientific conference in 1992, where Karen and some friends introduced the plastic toy that gives our training its name.

Experienced trainers and animals often look for new challenges and ideas to stretch and expand their abilities. Combining cues can help animals learn new behaviors more quickly.

Classical conditioning can be very useful in treating situations that trigger a dog's emotional reflexes, such as fear
and/or aggression.

The “retrieve” behavior is impressive to watch and useful to train for competitive obedience, service dog work, or just for fun.