At the Clicker Expo
Well I am at the clicker expo! And I found free internet. Not wireless, but the hotel has wired internet access in their computer room so I hooked up and here I am.
I am amazed at the clicker expo. The first speaker I watched was Ken Ramirez and not only does he know his stuff, he’s an excellent speaker and knows how to capture and hold his audiences interest.
I will write more when I get home, but the primary thing I learned form him, and remember, is that you have to train the secondary reinforcer. Train them as a behavior. And then follow the certain steps to make them be as strong as primary reinforcers. I really liked that concept.
Many of the trainers here only use shaping. They do not use luring at all. It is a very interesting concept, as I have used a lot of luring.
That first lecture was worth the entire trip. I was also impressed with Kathy Sdao, she is also an energetic speaker with lots of great ideas. I wish I could take regular classes with her, or with one of the clicker trainers here, because doing helps me learn a million times more than reading, or just watching a short lecture.
But in a nutshell, I think clicker training will revolutionize the world of animal communication. It amazes and fascinates me, how we can communicate with other species. It also excites me and thrills me, and I just love it. I think over the next years, and decades, we are going to see more of a revolutionary way of not only communicating with other animals, but relating to them, respecting them, and realizing they are as sentient as us human animals.
Actually, clicker training is already used in training and communicating with exotic animals and sea animals. I’ve heard from a couple of the trainers here who have worked with exotic and sea animals, that they used clicker type and positive reinforcement with them, then came to the dog world and were told that dog are trained differently, with correction and aversives, and they just drank that up and believed it. But now they are questioning that, and dogs are, finally, getting the type of training and care that they deserve.
Very very interesting. I just love it all, and have so much more to absorb. I’m like a sponge, and I want to drink it all in!
In will try to get online tomorrow night as well, we will see how it goes. 
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Oh how neat ! sounds like you are having a great time. It is always so fun to learn new stuff ! take care XO
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Yeah!!
Kathy Sdao, we need to bring her out to SLC. She is my all time favorite!Ken Ramirez, Jen and Steve White where my other I very much enjoyed. Virginia Broitmen was good. Joan Orr was ok.
I hope they are going to have more advanced session next year and more Labs and Lectures. Last year I was a bit overwhelmend, but this year I could have attended a forth and maybe even a fifth day.
Yeah!!
Kathy Sdao, we need to bring her out to SLC. She is my all time favorite!Ken Ramirez, Jen and Steve White where my other I very much enjoyed. Virginia Broitmen was good. Joan Orr was ok.
I hope they are going to have more advanced session next year and more Labs and Lectures. Last year I was a bit overwhelmend, but this year I could have attended a forth and maybe even a fifth day.
Hey Chris, it was great to learn stuff! I loved it.
Hey Astrid, would be so awesome to get Kathy Sdao out here! Maybe next year I could attend more, but this year I was pretty information overloaded after 3 days.
Hey Chris, it was great to learn stuff! I loved it.
Hey Astrid, would be so awesome to get Kathy Sdao out here! Maybe next year I could attend more, but this year I was pretty information overloaded after 3 days.