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| Quick Clicks: 40 Fast and Fun Behaviors to Train with a Clicker | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mandy Book, Cheryl S. Smith
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
Category: Book
Buy New: $19.95
New (3) Used (5) from $9.74
Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 561999
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 261
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0967479649
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.7
EAN: 9780967479644
ASIN: 0967479649
Publication Date: September 1, 2001
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 Good ideas July 8, 2006
My husband and I struggled to think of what kind of useful tricks we could train our dogs on. This is a good book if you want to figure out what to focus on - we wanted to be selective in choosing tricks that just weren't cute (although our dogs have figured out many cute things on their own).
 Better than any other clicker book I've read April 11, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
After reading five clicker training books (including Clicking with Your Dog, Clicker Training for Obedience, and Click for Joy!) and still feeling like I had no idea what I was doing, I finally found this book. This is the only book I've read on clicker training that SPECIFICALLY TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO DURING EVERY STEP. For those of you who want to do things RIGHT and don't want to put your dog through an ordeal of bad training techniques while you decrypt your training book, Quick Clicks is the book for you. It's true there are very few pictures. However, a lot of pictures doesn't guarantee clarity. Reading a book like Clicking with Your Dog, which is overrun with pictures, is terribly confusing. You'll get a picture of the starting position for the exercise and then a picture of the ending position, along with some very basic explanation. What ends up happening is you have no idea if you are using proper technique. It's akin to reading a chapter in a book about hitting a baseball with only a small bit of text and two pictures, one with the hitter with the bat on his shoulder and the other of the follow through and the ball leaving the ballpark. Useless.
Quick Clicks is different. It tells you everything you have to do during every clicking exercise. A wonderful book!
Misnomer? July 29, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a great book for the serious clicker trainer, or for somebody who is serious about becoming a clicker trainer. Each behavior is broken down into tiny increments, so there's no chance of lumping (from my own experience, the downfall of novice clickers). The instructions are easy to follow, fun to carry out, and provide a basis for creative clicking for the reader.
The book was recommended to me because my "granddog" has a spinal injury and has to be crated for several weeks. I wanted to find some "quiet" exercises to keep him occupied and mentally stimulated during that time. My daughter has never used clicker-training with any of her three dogs; so I wanted something that would produce fast results without requiring much movement on the part of the dog.
I was somewhat disappointed when the book arrived and I gave it a quick look-through. There's nothing "quick" about any of the behaviors described in the book. I'm sure that some clicker-savvy dogs can be lured or shaped to perform the activities more quickly than a newcomer to clicker training. But following each step for each behavior requires a lot of time and patience. As with every lesson taught with a clicker, the only way to be "quick" is to take as much time as necessary to master each step before moving on.
I won't give this book to my daughter right away. I think she'd be frustrated by trying to follow each step while her stir-crazy pup begs for something safe to occupy him. I'll give her something that explains more about behaviors that can be captured rather than taught.
While I don't think that the title of the book truly indicates the contents, I believe that the results of the training, as described in "Quick Clicks," will be near-perfect. I wish I had read this book before I started clicker training my dog. Maybe I would have learned right off the bat how to break down what I'm teaching into tiny steps that the dog can readily achieve. Maybe I would have realized that "quick" means slow and thoughtful.
There's another reason why I don't want to give "Quick Clicks" to my daughter at this time: I want to use it first to go back and re-teach the behaviors to my own dog.
 A Chore to Read November 28, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Maybe I'm just lazy...but a 250 page book with no pictures and just list after list of instructions with little format and order? I couldn't get through it, much as I wanted to. I have yet to find "the" clicker book as far as teaching behaviors goes (Click for Joy! is an exceptional primer).
Busy Mom loves this book! November 7, 2002
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is a great resource for both beginners and experienced trainers. It's well organized, easy to read, and loaded with fun and useful information. I've used it as a reference guide to review specific behaviors and flipped through it looking for new things to try, just for fun. I've even been able to make my (4 year old) daughter an active part of the training, strengthening the bond between her and the pup. Most important from a mother's standpoint, though, is that the training we're doing models many of the qualities I want to instill in my daughter: patience, kindness, problem-solving, respect for animals, using your imagination, trying new things, not giving up if something doesn't work immediately. It has been a confidence builder for both of them. Quick Clicks is the best training tool I've come across - for dogs and humans!
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