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Professional insights, training tips and reflections from Canis instructors. Clicker training, learning psychology and everyday dog training.
Professional insights, training tips and reflections from Canis instructors. Clicker training, learning psychology and everyday dog training.
Filosofi · 22. mai 2026 · 4 min
I think the time has come to debunk a myth, and it might hurt a bit for many people. It often hurts to change your mind about something, but it passes and you usually come out wiser for it.
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Klikkertrening · 19. mai 2026 · 3 min
If you've read the books "Clicker Training for Your Dog" or "Obedience Training in Theory and Practice", you will have learnt about the importance of focusing on 4 things to make your training more effective (or for your course participants):
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Læringsteori · 10. mars 2026 · 3 min
In Psychology Today, we can read a very good article that addressed an issue dog trainers have been discussing for many years.
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Klikkertrening · 26. mai 2025 · 4 min
Canis clicker instructor course has been run (almost) every year since 2003.
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Klikkertrening · 26. mai 2024 · 8 min
The most important thing is to click precisely. But in many cases you can also make your training even more effective by delivering the reinforcer in a special way after the click.
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Brukshund · 10. juni 2021 · 6 min
Today we had the fifth session of «Brukshundstigen», since we started teaching this exercise a couple of weeks ago.
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Konkurranselydighet · 19. mars 2021 · 2 min
Here's a quick recall film showing how Cuba has learnt to "hold breath" as a "start button behaviour" on the recall.
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Klikkertrening · 3. juni 2019 · 4 min
If you've just become interested in clicker training, it can initially be a bit difficult to understand how experienced trainers can free-shape a dog to offer behaviours "voluntarily", without luring, leading or showing the dog what to do in the first place.
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Klikkertrening · 17. oktober 2018 · 4 min
"Contact is the most important thing in dog training!" If you've been training dogs for a few years, you've definitely heard some variation of that statement.
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Atferdskjeder · 21. mars 2017 · 1 min
Jan Østergaard is well known to many clicker trainers because of his numerous shaping videos on Youtube, where he demonstrates many excellent examples of outstanding clicker training with his particularly clicker-savvy dog, Basso.
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Nyheter · 2. mars 2016 · 1 min
On Canisakademiet.no you'll find several short online courses that show you how to use clicker training in practice.
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