Clicker Training Your Pet Pig, Turkey and Llama?

Clicker training for dogs is a widely accepted and popular method for training with positive reinforcement. Puppies can be obedience trained with a clicker, and many people use the clicker training method to teach their dogs to do tricks, play games, and perform special emergency mission jobs such as finding survivors in a disaster scene.

The use of clicker training began with dolphins to do tricks, like the dolphins at SeaWorld. But did you know there are people who have used clickers to train turkeys, birds, llamas, fish, rabbits and pigs?

A veterinarian clicker trained a two year old parrot that would only allow one person to hold her to trust other people. The parrot bit everyone else to the point of drawing blood. Through clicker training with millet as the treat, the parrot learned to trust the touch by another owner. Another person clicker trained a pet turkey in just five minutes to fly to a target wherever the target was put, in and out of the cage.

Llamas have been clicker trained to carry packs and ring bells, and on obstacle courses. Pigs are very smart and have been easily trained to sit and do tricks like pushing a ball with their nose and maneuvering through obstacle courses. Pet rabbits have been clicker trained to hop over jumps, run through tunnels, and to feel safe when being lifted and held. Imagine the tricks you can teach your pet — with clicker training!