For a very good guide to all sorts of dog training processes and dog behavior challenges, I use and recommend Clickertraining ...that link goes to the description of this terrific ebook you download immediately, wherever you are! -- Rosana

7steps-ebookcover This article is excerpted from the free ebook I wrote, Seven Steps to Clicker Training Success with Your Dog. The link takes you to where you can get a copy by signing up for my weekly email newsletter. (It just takes a jiffy, and you can always unsubscribe.) The ebook covers every aspect of getting a good start with clicker training dogs.

Actually Do Some Clicker Training Sessions

For success with clicker training, you have to do it. That sounds like a no-brainer, but learning any new skill involves going through a stage where you aren’t sure of what you are doing. Taking action, no matter how uncertain or clumsy, is the most important thing you can do now.

In Step Two, I’ll make some comments about your dog, outline two actual sessions you can do at home, and talk about how you can convert your existing training procedures to clicker training. Once you have done even one or two sessions, the later steps in this manual will make a lot more sense to you, because you will be building on experience instead of just book-learning!

If you have more than one dog, just work with one at a time at first. If at all possible, have any other dogs somewhere else while you are learning.

If you and your dog are new to clicker training, your dog won’t understand that that the sound of the clicker means anything. Some dogs may be startled by the sound at first. That’s why the first session I outline is for getting your dog used to the clicker.

Be attentive to how your dog is responding. Whatever the age of your dog, he can learn about clickers. I trained a young Basenji puppy to sit in the first few days that we had her, with the clicker. I’m currently teaching my ten-year-old mixed-breed some new tricks. Blind dogs can be clicker trained; people have trained deaf dogs by using a flashlight instead of the clicker.

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