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 [...]

Gloria White is a dog trainer who subscribes to my newsletter. When she wrote me the following email, I asked her permission to use it in the blog, she said yes, and here it is:
Just read your note about the clicker and how to transition to another  cue.  In the classes that I [...]

Ohio dog  trainer Gloria White compares the clicker to a camera. Why?
"You click to ‘take a picture’ of the appropriate behavior," she says. In other words, both clicker and camera are used to capture a moment. With the camera, you get a picture and if you are lucky, you get a really good one. With [...]

This video shows some of the ways you can housetrain a puppy using a clicker:

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When we first got Lola, she quickly developed a habit of scratching on the screen door when she wanted someone to let her in — which was frequently. It’s been warm enough lately that we mostly just use the screen door.
I’ll spare you the image of what those scratches did to the soft wood of [...]

I came across a blog post where the writer said she had read that the sound of a clicker evidently reached the amygdala, a “primitive’ part of dogs’ brains and ours. She had used clickers in the past but with the rescue dog she was currently training, she had just been using her tongue. When [...]

Our older dog, LarryDog, has been a bit jealous of all the attention that Lola’s been getting. He’s growled at her off and on.
So spontaneously this afternoon, I did some clicker training for both of them together. (”Spontaneously” means that I actually had something else entirely planned for training, but this idea popped up!)
Larry’s known [...]