One of the first things I like to train domestic animals is to respond to a “look at me” or “watch me” command. The above video shows one trainer’s strategy to accomplish this task. In some species, such as dogs, eye contact often has to be trained since direct eye contact is not always appropriate [...]
Good Hypothesis or Hooey?
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One of the things that often gets in the way of good training progress is that people get odd ideas over why their animal behaves a certain way. I working on a book about such misconceptions because people have made up, or passed down, bad hypotheses about any number of things. Plus, they also view [...]
