Web resources for clicker training for loose leash walking, heeling, and responding to reactive barkers or lungers

At a recent meeting of the Kalamazoo Dog Training Club an idea was floated for trainers to use the monthly meeting program time to share some of their methods with others. The idea was to expose all of us to a variety of training methods. Becki V., Sue H. and myself volunteered to share first. At the May 5th monthly meeting we discussed training methods concerning two issues/behaviors: (1) what to do when dogs are reactive/barkers/lungers at our pet classes and (2) how to teach loose leash walking and heeling. My comments, of course, came from an all-positive clicker perspective. Here I wanted to share more details and resources about the methods I discussed so that those who attended the program (and those that did not) would have access to more information.

I discussed several approaches to teaching loose leash walking and here are the url’s for two articles available on the web that give more information about those approaches:
http://www.clickertraining.com/node/541
http://www.clickerlessons.com/looseleash.htm

I also discussed Sue Ailsby’s method for teaching heeling by using moving eye contact:
http://www.dragonflyllama.com/%20DOGS/Levels/LevelBehaviours/TL11Heel.html

I discussed preferring to not use much luring at all in teaching heeling and loose leash walking and here is an article discussing using luring vs. targeting (eye or other contact point) for teaching any behavior:
http://www.clickertraining.com/node/301 targeting vs luring

I also mentioned building duration which can be used for many behaviors including some aspects of loose leash walking. A common and easy to use method among clicker trainers is the 300 peck method that is discussed in the following article:
http://www.clickertraining.com/node/1057

In terms of aggressive/reactive/barkers, clicker trainers use knowing your dog and “reading your dogs” as a first step in planning how to clicker train them to resolve this issues and here is more information on that:

http://www.clickertraining.com/node/1690

Finally, most everything else that I know and the major ideas among clicker trainers in general come from Emma Parson’s and her book Click to Calm. Here is some general information on the book:
http://www.clickertraining.com/node/343

Then here is some information on one of her approaches that I discussed at the meeting:
http://www.clickertraining.com/node/339