For a well-behaved pet, take some tips from zoo trainers

By Linda Lombardi / The Bulletin
July 13, 2009

You’ll never have to teach a panda to walk on a leash. But if any kind of animal lives in your house, trainers at the zoo have some useful lessons for you.

Modern training methods rely on a simple principle of learning: If an action has a pleasurable consequence, the animal will repeat....

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