Clicking with Your Dog: Step-by-Step in Pictures
Clicker training is a method of teaching behavior to dogs using  positive reinforcement. The successive approximation of desired  behavior is marked with a clicker and rewarded with a treat, a  toy, or a pat. Inappropriate behavior is ignored, not punished.  In 1985, Karen Pryor published the seminal work on this method,  Don't Shoot the Dog (Bantam), and issued a revision in 1999.  Both editions are highly theoretical and are aimed at the  educated, informed lay reader. Tillman, an ergonomics  illustrator as well as a dog trainer and clicker-training  instructor, has made Pryor's principles and techniques  accessible to the rank amateur. Using easily understandable text  and clear, step-by-step drawings, she guides the novice through  all the steps necessary to teach dogs almost 100 different  behaviors, from basic obedience to housebreaking to tricks. She  also applies the principles to the elimination of problem  behavior. While Paul Owens's The Dog Whisperer (LJ 10/1/99)  covered much the same subject matter, Tillman's book teaches the  skills through illustrations. Highly recommended for public  libraries. Florence Scarinci, Nassau Community Coll. Lib.,  Garden City, NYCopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.