Kiki’s Training Publications

For the newest articles, including revised and updated versions of some of Kiki’s One Tail at a Time columns, please see the blog. 

For Karen Pryor Clicker Training:

• How to Get Your Dog to Stop Barking—By Thanking Him for Barking

• The ABCs of Barking (also anthologized in the book Better Together: The Collected Wisdom of Modern Dog Trainers, edited by Ken Ramirez)

• How to Teach Your Dog to Read Your Mind: Using Environmental Cues

• Case study presented as part of Now You Know Your ABCs: Putting Functional Assessment to Work by Susan Friedman, PhD at ClickerExpo Live 2021 (available as video on demand, $59.95)

For One Tail at a Time Rescue:

The “Ask a Trainer” page is currently an archive. I will be working on moving the best of these articles to my blog and updating them.

• Turning "No" Into "Do": Addressing Unwanted Behaviors Using Positive Reinforcement

• Separation Anxiety: The First 3 Things to Do If You Suspect Your Dog Has It

• "Disobedience": Why Your Dog Might Not Listen to You and What You Can Do to Change That

• Starting Off on the Right Paw: Integrating a New Dog With Other Pets

• How to Teach Your Dog to Read Your Mind: Using Environmental Cues

• Puppy Socialization: What It Is, What It Isn't, and Why It's Critical

• Pulling Toward Other Dogs on Leash

• First Steps for Fearful Dogs

• How to Teach Your Dog to Do "Nothing": Seeing and Capitalizing on Informal Behaviors

• Can You Train Your Dog With Affection?

• How Many Cues Do You Really Need?

• Want Reliable Behaviors? Create Reliable Cues.

• Why Musicians Make Good Dog Trainers, or The Importance of Fundamentals

• When "Sit" Doesn't Happen: Choosing Better Alternative Behaviors

• Crate Training Your Dog

• Attention Is Job One, or How to Split a Sit

• The Problem With "Ignoring" Unwanted Behavior

• Training With the Grain: Facilitating vs. Suppressing Behavior

• Positive Reinforcement: Turning the World Into a Treat

• What Predicts What: A Key Question in Dog Training

• It Depends: Why Dog Training "Tips" Often Fail (example: puppy biting)

• Teach Your Dog to Wait at Doors

• Teaching When, Where, and Why

• Redirect or Preempt?

• Dogs in High-Rises: A Modest Proposal

For Rover-Time Dog Walking & Pet Sitting: 

• Boning Up on Canine Communication

• What Am I Reinforcing? Thinking Like a Trainer Even When You're Not Training

• Counter Surfing and Object Stealing

• How to Introduce a Baby to a Household With a Dog

• How to Reduce Your Dog's Barking at the Door

• Management: The Missing Link

• Teach Your Dog to File Her Own Nails

• How to Fit a No-Pull Harness

• Can You Clicker Train Without a Clicker?

• Seven Things to Teach Your New Puppy Now (And Not One of Them Is Sit)

• What's a Walk For?

• Should Your Dog Be Allowed to Say No?

• Dog Bite Prevention (video)

For Pets Are Like Family

• How to Potty Train a New Puppy or Dog (video)

For Barks From the Guild, the magazine of the Pet Professional Guild

• The Art of Doing Nothing (page 23)