The word-free teaching and training table game. Experience what it means to be taught through this incredibly fun and stimulating game that teaches clicker training. For ages 6 to 106.
- Why does your dog always spin before sitting? Or bark before jumping?
- Do you have a smart dog who just can’t seem to understand a simple cue?
- Have you ever wondered what your dog was thinking?
Enter your dog’s mind—or that of any other clicker trained animal—in
the most exciting, enlightening new game for trainers and handlers ever
devised. "You don't say!" The Word-Free Teaching and Training Game reveals the art and
power of
clicker training, and how it feels to be our dogs, in a clever table-top game played between two people.
This is how it works: Find a partner and grab a set of "You don't say!"
One player becomes the teacher and the other becomes the learner. Open
the set and spread the various objects in it across your table top.
You’ll see each set is filled with a curious—but not random—assortment:
dice, toy solders, toy cars, dominos, clothespins, hair clips, and
more. Each set also includes a clicker, a set of playing cards, and a
collection of “rewards.”
Now, with your clicker and rewards, can you train your partner to point
to a clothespin? Can you train her to pick up a toy soldier? Can you
train her to roll a domino and turn the toy car upside-down? Can you
put each behavior on a cue? All without speaking a single word?
Yes, you can! In the process, you’ll discover more about when
to click, how to deliver the reward, and shape behavior in less time
than you ever knew before. You and your partner will find yourselves
howling with laughter, gasping with sudden understanding, and having a
lot of fun. Players can hardly believe how quickly their clicker
training skills advance, saying:
- "Thirty minutes of playing this game brought me more understanding than three years of clicker training.”
- “I understood what the dog must feel like and I understood exactly what I needed to learn as a trainer."
- "I wish I had learned my clicker training skills on this game rather than my very, very patient and forgiving dog. Wow!"
"You don't say!" is the ideal introduction for
students and other newbies to the principles and practice of clicker
training. Launch a clicker class for pet owners with a round of the
game, and watch your students become thoughtful, skilled clicker
trainers right from the beginning.
It is experienced trainers, however, who often learn the most when playing "You don't say!"
The cause of stubborn training problems becomes clear. Alternative
methods of reaching the same goal arise. Long-term misunderstandings
between you and your dog can be erased. And, because it’s a clicker
game, your leaps in learning will be reinforced by all the fun you have
playing the game. "You don't say!"
The game “You don't say!” is produced and distributed in the US by KPCT under a licensing agreement with Kay Laurence.