The Critical Success Factor
What is the single greatest factor in the successful training of an animal (and we include humans, too!!!)? Successful professional athletes know it, successful coaches know it, successful teachers know it, and successful animal trainers know it. Now we'll tell you too (but sssssh! It's a secret!).

Positive-Only and Traditional Training Methods Compared
Okay, what are the advantages and disadvantages of "Positive-only" (hint, no matter what they say, it's not, truly "positive only") versus Traditional training methodologies from a person who has trained in both ways (and, now, does "Positive-Only" methods).

Communications
We must communicate in some manner with the animals in training (or already trained) in order to tell them what it is that we want them to do. How do we do this?

Setting Criteria
What are the goals towards which we train? If we don't set appropriate goals, how do we know if we're getting closer to achieving them? How do we know what to expect?

Avoiding Aversives
Why should we avoid aversives (or punishments) when teaching a new behavior? This article explains some of the drawbacks to aversive training. This is written by a former (successful) aversive-based trainer.

Why Scolding Doesn't Work
Why scolding doesn't work to break habits such as making messes in the house, chewing on shoes, etc.

Examples and Non-Examples
Understanding examples and non-examples can help you to speed up your pet's process of learning. When used together, as opposed to simply using examples, it helps your pet to quickly determine what's important and what isn't.

Making Friends and Influencing Enemies
We can apply the lessons of operant conditioning in situations far more broadly than just training our animals.

I Know What Animals Are Thinking!
An opinion/editorial piece about the claim that someone knows what an animal is thinking.

What is Clicker Training?
A brief introduction to what clicker training is all about.

Eliminating Behaviors by Ignoring Them
Why is it that Clicker Trainers say to reward the behaviors you want and ignore the others. Can this be used to eliminate unwanted behaviors?