Because clicker sessions can be five minutes or even less, you can work them into your daily life.
I’m not saying that they have to be that brief, but they can be. So this means you can find ways to work them into your schedule. (Even if the only predictable thing in your life is the unpredictable, you can still… CLICK THE TITLE TO READ MORE.
Karen Pryor’s Comment about Clicking
“Clicking is like making a bargain,” she has said. It’s a language that crosses the barriers between species. Clicker training is based on well-researched principles of how animals learn, and it puts the focus on what the dog is doing… CLICK THE TITLE TO READ MORE.
Clicker training and agility have a lot in common — they are both lots of fun – and Click and Play Agility, by Angelica Steinker, brings the two worlds together. But even if you don’t do agility, the book has a lot of good ideas for ways to play with your dog.
Be warned, though, [...]
I really like clicker training my dogs because the communication is so clear and so enthusiastic. The moment of the click tells the dog, “YES! That’s what I wanted you to do! You got it!” all in a fraction of a second. I’ve been using clickers for dog training for years now, and always keep a bunch around the house. I thought it would make an interesting article to see what kinds of clickers are available currently. CLICK THE TITLE TO READ MORE…
Do you know how long ago clicker training began with dogs?
Only twenty years ago, nobody was clicker training their dogs, even though marine mammal trainer Karen Pryor had already written a book called Don’t Shoot the Dog. I remember reading it back in the 80s when
In a website on dog training, what am I doing talking about cats, even if it is clicker training cats?
Here are a couple of reasons:
Many of us who live with dogs also live with cats. If we are into training, the dogs may get all the attention. (This website does have a lot about clicker [...]
If you’ve been clicker training your puppy or dog, there will be times when you don’t have a clicker handy. How do you handle the training then?
Well, this has come up quite a bit for me lately, as our Rottweiler, Lola, has developed a good understanding of the basic commands in the months we’ve [...]
Chances are that your dog or dogs are already trained to sit, but are you taking advantage of the many ways this versatile word can be used? Today I’ll give some tips on training the sit with a clicker. These are hot from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, as I’ve been doing this [...]
Yesterday I was out most of the day, so it was late afternoon by the time I got to my email. Surprise! Our Rottweiler Lola had been chosen Dog of the Day at Dogster.com! It’s been barely a month since we joined it, and there are many thousands (someone said 30,000) of dogs there.
Here’s a [...]
By Gloria J. White, used with her permission.
Before you begin your training, it is important to establish a "cue" to let your pet know that what it is doing is the appropriate behavior. You may decide to use a clicker or perhaps you will choose to use a word (yes). We will discuss both of [...]