The other advantage is if your dog prefers food rewards, clicker training helps to avoid obesity as less treats are needed once the clicker starts to be its own reward. Make sure you time your clicks right.
Try to click at the very moment when your dog does the thing you are asking for — if the click comes early or late your dog can easily get confused. You need your dog to learn that the click means a reward before you can train them with it.
Then, click the clicker and give them a reward straight away. You only need to click once and the reward needs to follow as soon as possible after the click.
Repeat this for a few days, in sessions of around 2 minutes a few times a day. You want to get them to the point where they look at you and expect a reward as soon as you click. Once your dog knows the click means reward, you can start using it for basic training. Try starting with something simple, like teaching your dog to sit. They should automatically sit back.
You need to click as soon as their bum hits the ground. Remember to give them their reward as soon as possible after the click too. Once their bum hits the ground, make sure you click and reward. Never force your dog into a behaviour — you want them to see training as a happy experience.
The click should have become its own reward by now and only giving them the treat afterwards sometimes will actually make the association last even better. You can use a clicker to teach other behaviours too. Otherwise they can easily get confused and find it difficult to learn. You can use clicker training to teach your dog some bigger things, too. This can be, for example, getting your dog to lie on their bed when they are standing across the room. This means breaking down what you want your dog to do into steps and mastering each step before moving on.
Then you can progress to clicking only when they move towards it. You can use things like pointing or luring to help with some steps. Introducing your pet to the clicker sound is an easy process, and should take 30 minutes or so. To introduce your dog to the click, sit in a room with your dog watching TV or reading a book. Have the clicker and a container of treats within reach. Place one treat in your hand and the clicker in the other. Pro Tip: If your dog smells the treat and tries to get it by pawing, sniffing, or mouthing, simply close your hand around the treat and wait until he leaves you alone.
Self-discipline is key! Click once and immediately open your hand to give your dog the treat. Put another treat in your closed hand, and resume watching TV or reading. Ignore your dog. Several minutes later, click again and offer another treat.
Continue to repeat the click-and-treat combination at varying intervals—sometimes after one to two minutes, sometimes after five minutes. Once your dog associates the click with a treat, you can begin working on some behavioral training. Keep practice sessions short. Much more is learned in three sessions of five minutes each than in an hour of boring repetition. You can get dramatic results, and teach your pet many new things, by fitting a few clicks a day here and there in your normal routine.
Fix bad behavior by clicking good behavior. Click the puppy for relieving itself in the proper spot. Click for paws on the ground, not on the visitors. Instead of scolding for making noise, click for silence. Cure leash-pulling by clicking and treating those moments when the leash happens to go slack.
Click for voluntary or accidental movements toward your goal. You may coax or lure the animal into a movement or position, but don't push, pull, or hold it. Let the animal discover how to do the behavior on its own. If you need a leash for safety's sake, loop it over your shoulder or tie it to your belt. Don't wait for the "whole picture" or the perfect behavior. Click and treat for small movements in the right direction. You want the dog to sit, and it starts to crouch in back: click.
You want it to come when called, and it takes a few steps your way: click. Keep raising your goal. As soon as you have a good response-when a dog, for example, is voluntarily lying down, coming toward you, or sitting repeatedly-start asking for more.
Wait a few beats, until the dog stays down a little longer, comes a little further, sits a little faster. Then click. This is called " shaping " a behavior. When your animal has learned to do something for clicks, it will begin showing you the behavior spontaneously, trying to get you to click.
Now is the time to begin offering a cue , such as a word or a hand signal. Start clicking for that behavior if it happens during or after the cue.
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