Meet Corally Burmaster
Corally
Burmaster began training dogs in 1965 with the acquisition of her first
Airedale. Neither she nor the Airedale knew anything about obedience,
so they rearranged their ignorance together until she found her way
to an obedience class.
Not satisfied with the less than effective methods used
in the class she attended, she helped found the Belmont Hills Dog Training
Club in California and subsequently served as an instructor,Training Director,
and author of the training manual that was used by subsequent instructors.
She continued to teach private lessons in obedience after moving to Virginia.
Corally switched to clicker training in 1993 when she discovered
the power of training with a conditioned reinforcer. Since then, she has
spent her time exploring its potential in as many training situations
as possible, in obedience class situations, with both naive and crossover
dogs and trainers and in fixing behavior problems caused by what she calls
environmental contamination. She has taught instructors how to teach clicker
classes, has done seminars across the country and has helped adapt clicker
training methods to the training of search and rescue, service and
hunting dogs. She breeds and shows her Airedales under the kennel name
of Coldstream, and she has put a number of obedience degrees and championships
on them, including a National Specialty winner.
Her major focus, however, has been on providing a place
where knowledge about clicker training can be shared. That is how The
Clicker Journal began and why she opened The Clicker Training Center in
Leesburg, Virginia.