Dog clicker training is a great way to have a lot of fun with your dog and get the training done at the same time! I like it so much that I’ve written a free ebook, Seven Steps to Clicker Training with Your Dog — that link takes you to where you can sign up for it.
Listen to a short audio about this method:
If you would rather read than listen — or want to do both — this audio is based loosely on this page of my website: Dog Clicker Training.
And if you would like to download this audio to listen to on an mp3 player, for example, here is the direct link to it. Just right-click or the Mac equivalent to save it to your computer:
I’m a big fan of crate training, but not for all dogs. That link takes you to a long page I wrote about the main website about crate training, how to do it, and when not to. But I don’t talk about clicker training there. So as I’ve been reading Clickertraining: the 4 Secrets of Becoming a Supertrainer recently, I noticed that they have a chapter on crate training. It’s near the end of the ebook, and so I thought it might draw on clicker methods that would be pretty advanced. It doesn’t really though.
I was very pleased to see that Morten and Cecilie, the authors of the ebook, take the same view I do that crate training is not something to be rushed!
What do you do if you have clicker trained your dog but then you are out together somewhere and have forgotten your clicker? I’ve heard this question from people who haven’t started clicker training, as they are thinking through whether they want to give it a try. A further part of their concern is whether they are committing themselves to carrying clickers around in their pockets for the rest of their lives. Read the rest of this entry
I was pleased to discover a new book on clicker training. Actually it’s an ebook, which to my eyes is even better because you can download it instantly after purchase and be reading it within a few minutes, no matter where you live, it can have links embedded in the text, and it’s way more ecological. Clickertraining: the 4 Secrets of Becoming a Supertrainer is by Morten Egtvedt & Cecilie Koeste, a couple with a lot of experience in clicker training dogs. (Clicking on the image or on the title above takes you to their website.)
At 213 pages, it will take you more than a few minutes to read it, but that’s with wide margins and big print. (You can read it on your computer, or print it out. I soon realized it was such a useful book to refer to that I would want it on my bookshelf, so I printed it out and put it in a 3-4ing binder, where I could take a few pages out at a time.) In the beginning, Morten and Cecilie do tell you, ” We can’t deliver miracles –just pass on the principles of effective dog training. You have to be prepared to devote time and energy…” That’s true of anything worthwhile, but I’ll add that once you master the basic principles of clicker training dogs, you have a very useful tool for the rest of your life. Read the rest of this entry
