The very first thing I do each morning is turn horses out. How do I go through so many treats? Here's a typical day, keeping in mind that it is mid-winter and 'typical' could look very different in mid-summer: I can no longer say I always have treats in my pocket because although I stuff them frequently, I also dole them out frequently and before you know it, my pockets are empty again. Once you and your horse discover how great this system is and you become a smooth handler, you can begin using clicker training in other situations and at this point, you become one of those people who always has treats in her pocket. Many people begin clicker training by having 'training sessions' and indeed that is a good place to begin- get organized, count out your treats, have a plan, train and then assess how things went. So now I'm going to do the same with the horses and share it here. I thought it was a wonderful exercise and went through it myself, but never submitted it. At the end, she encouraged readers to do a daily tally of reinforcers and submit them. We take these matters very seriously and we are happy to connect directly with the individual.In the September issue of The Whole Dog Journal, Pat Miller wrote an article called 'Daily Training' in which she detailed how she reinforces her dogs throughout each and every day. Target responded to requests for comment with a statement: “It always has been - and continues to be - a policy of Target to respect the intellectual property rights of others. “But Target prides itself on designer collaborations, forward-thinking products and progressive marketing, and I just wish they had approached me directly.”

“I know that it is almost impossible to protect your designs, especially being a small company,” Inganni said.

Inganni’s husband, furniture designer and maker Brendan Sowersby of 100Xbetter, cuts the intricate animal silhouettes on computer numerically controlled (CNC) machinery, and the couple said they worked for a year perfecting the heat transfer technique. “I design and draw each of my prints and painstakingly test them several times to come up with the right balance of colors, graphics and proportion.” “The Target ones are so crude, so inelegant, they obviously lack a refinement of proportion and technique,” Inganni said. They are about two-thirds the size of the Wolfum bookends. The animal forms are mounted on inexpensive wood that has been stained nearly black to hide imperfections. The line includes only two designs - a giraffe and a lion - painted in a textile design common to India, where they are produced. The bookends have been prominently featured by House Beautiful, O, Sunset and design blogs, and Inganni said she has sold thousands of them via her website and retailers such as Lawson Fenning and Anthropologie.īy contrast, the $14.99 Threshold bookends sold through Target are part of what is called the Passport Home Décor collection, which takes design cues from Mumbai and Marrakesh. The Wolfum animals are mounted on solid walnut bases made with Forest Stewardship Council-material, meaning the wood was sustainably harvested. The 23 designs are heat-transfer-printed by hand on half-inch-thick plywood using a proprietary coating that she says retains the potency of her color schemes.

Inganni said she conceived her Wolfum bookends as Christmas gifts in 2009 and launched them in 2010. Mass-market stores, on the other hand, say they are merely making good design accessible to a broader audience that can’t afford designer originals. Independent designers say their creativity is being pilfered for corporate profit. Lookalike designs are nothing new in 2011 we reported on the the Venice store Obsolete’s accusations against Restoration Hardware. “Not only is the entire idea so exact - a printed animal shape on a wood bookend - but the prints are so similar.” “I am shocked and frustrated,” Inganni said by email. Annabel Inganni, the Los Angeles designer behind the Wolfum line of home décor accessories, recently discovered that her bookends - animal shapes printed with original patterns and sold for $62 - appear to have been replicated by Threshold, a Target-owned brand, which is selling its bookends for $14.99 online.

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