--- product_id: 2694999 title: "Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals (A Gift for Animal Lovers)" price: "AR$50244" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/2694999-reaching-the-animal-mind-clicker-training-and-what-it-teaches store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals (A Gift for Animal Lovers) **Price:** AR$50244 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals (A Gift for Animal Lovers) - **How much does it cost?** AR$50244 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/2694999-reaching-the-animal-mind-clicker-training-and-what-it-teaches) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description From the founder of “clicker” training, the widely praised humane approach to shaping animal behavior, comes a fascinating book—part memoir, part insight into how animals and people think and behave. A celebrated pioneer in the field of no-punishment animal training, Karen Pryor is responsible for developing clicker training—an all-positive, safe, effective way to modify and shape animal behavior—and she has changed the lives of millions of animals. Practical, engrossing, and full of fascinating stories about Pryor’s interactions with animals of all sorts, Reaching the Animal Mind presents the sum total of her life’s work. She explains the science behind clicker training, how and why it works, and offers step-by-step instructions on how you can clicker-train any animal in your life. For bonus video clips, slide shows, articles, downloadable exercises, and links expanding on the contents of the book, go to ReachingtheAnimalMind.com. Review: If you love animals, you need to buy this book. (Which, as an added bonus, it will teach you a lot about humans too). - As an already disabled woman, a recent diagnosis of a progressive brain disorder on top of everything else I live with daily was pretty devastating. One of the most highly recommended cognitive supports for me was a service dog. I don't know how long I will be able to personally train such a dog before my condition is too advanced, so we immediately set to work choosing a puppy and a training program. I could not be happier with the choice I made with this book and clicker training in general. "Reaching the Animal Mind" is both supremely practical in it's approach and very enlightening as to how both animals and humans really learn, and can become more active, happy participants in learning. It is an excellent way to tune in to an individual animal and connect, because to do it at all requires you to be focused on POSITIVELY REWARDING THE BEHAVIOR YOU WANT, and spotting the very first instant that the animal moves in the direction of that behavior. The animal is getting attention and instant reinforcement for doing well, instead of having meaningless words thrown at it in increasingly frustrated tones, while it tries to figure out what you could possibly want. I thought I was a positive person with my animals until I tried the training set out in this book. I was amazed at how hard it was at first to stop looking first and foremost at the negative and reacting to it over and over. It is still a challenge, but the great results and even greater happiness it brings to myself and my puppy when I do it right make it very worthwhile. As a side note, if you have trouble lining up your words the way I do now, you will love how the clicker allows you to respond to the animal's behavior instantly, with no frustration, while you try to get out that "good dog" before the behavior is already past and done. I highly recommend this book. Review: A Misleading Title for a Fascinating Book - This book is about far more than reaching the "animal mind", even if you include the human animal. Karen Pryor is one of those rare writers who can take information from several scientific fields, see how they interact and make the whole thing fascinating to the non-technical reader. She starts out by saying that she won't regurgitate what is found elsewhere or rephrase other people's experiences, instead she uses her own very wide experience to illustrate how she became a pioneer of a new way of teaching dolphins, dogs, zoo animals and finally people. Here you will meet a wolf named D'Artagnan who had learned that he could make people back away by rushing his fence and showing what big teeth he had. With a coffee can full of kibble and a dolphin-trainer's whistle, she convinces him that it is much more fun to show off how fast he can run to a tree and back. And for that the no-longer-scared humans give him kibble. Good deal. There are videos taken during some of the experiences described so that you can meet some rare birds whose looks only a mother (or a zoo biologist) could love. If they are too stressed to eat by being in captivity, they may well be last of their species. Enter a keeper trained in the new methods who teaches them not only to eat, but to let themselves be weighed and most rewarding, to play with toys. And you will meet sports coaches who stop yelling at the athletes and telling them what they are doing wrong. Instead they are able to pinpoint exactly the moment when the legs are perfectly straight or the shoulder is exactly aligned or the toe is pointed and turned out correctly. All by applying the same methods in a system called TAG Teaching. And as a bonus, there is a section describing the latest work by neurological researchers into the physical why this all works. The only drawback is that you find yourself dropping everything and starting to work with the nearest dog, cat, ferret, tropical fish or teenager. Be warned. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #240,217 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #229 in Dog Training (Books) #461 in Zoology (Books) #1,246 in Fauna | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 529 Reviews | ## Images ![Reaching the Animal Mind: Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals (A Gift for Animal Lovers) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61UmFE8L4NL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ If you love animals, you need to buy this book. (Which, as an added bonus, it will teach you a lot about humans too). *by H***N on June 25, 2013* As an already disabled woman, a recent diagnosis of a progressive brain disorder on top of everything else I live with daily was pretty devastating. One of the most highly recommended cognitive supports for me was a service dog. I don't know how long I will be able to personally train such a dog before my condition is too advanced, so we immediately set to work choosing a puppy and a training program. I could not be happier with the choice I made with this book and clicker training in general. "Reaching the Animal Mind" is both supremely practical in it's approach and very enlightening as to how both animals and humans really learn, and can become more active, happy participants in learning. It is an excellent way to tune in to an individual animal and connect, because to do it at all requires you to be focused on POSITIVELY REWARDING THE BEHAVIOR YOU WANT, and spotting the very first instant that the animal moves in the direction of that behavior. The animal is getting attention and instant reinforcement for doing well, instead of having meaningless words thrown at it in increasingly frustrated tones, while it tries to figure out what you could possibly want. I thought I was a positive person with my animals until I tried the training set out in this book. I was amazed at how hard it was at first to stop looking first and foremost at the negative and reacting to it over and over. It is still a challenge, but the great results and even greater happiness it brings to myself and my puppy when I do it right make it very worthwhile. As a side note, if you have trouble lining up your words the way I do now, you will love how the clicker allows you to respond to the animal's behavior instantly, with no frustration, while you try to get out that "good dog" before the behavior is already past and done. I highly recommend this book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Misleading Title for a Fascinating Book *by P***N on March 24, 2013* This book is about far more than reaching the "animal mind", even if you include the human animal. Karen Pryor is one of those rare writers who can take information from several scientific fields, see how they interact and make the whole thing fascinating to the non-technical reader. She starts out by saying that she won't regurgitate what is found elsewhere or rephrase other people's experiences, instead she uses her own very wide experience to illustrate how she became a pioneer of a new way of teaching dolphins, dogs, zoo animals and finally people. Here you will meet a wolf named D'Artagnan who had learned that he could make people back away by rushing his fence and showing what big teeth he had. With a coffee can full of kibble and a dolphin-trainer's whistle, she convinces him that it is much more fun to show off how fast he can run to a tree and back. And for that the no-longer-scared humans give him kibble. Good deal. There are videos taken during some of the experiences described so that you can meet some rare birds whose looks only a mother (or a zoo biologist) could love. If they are too stressed to eat by being in captivity, they may well be last of their species. Enter a keeper trained in the new methods who teaches them not only to eat, but to let themselves be weighed and most rewarding, to play with toys. And you will meet sports coaches who stop yelling at the athletes and telling them what they are doing wrong. Instead they are able to pinpoint exactly the moment when the legs are perfectly straight or the shoulder is exactly aligned or the toe is pointed and turned out correctly. All by applying the same methods in a system called TAG Teaching. And as a bonus, there is a section describing the latest work by neurological researchers into the physical why this all works. The only drawback is that you find yourself dropping everything and starting to work with the nearest dog, cat, ferret, tropical fish or teenager. Be warned. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The most important part of training is this book! *by C***L on February 2, 2026* The foundation book of clicker training. This is the ABC book you need on +R Do yourself the favor and buy it. 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