Clicker Fan here too! I noticed a real improvement in Millie after be began to implement the clicker, especially in potty training.
We got the clicker off the Karen Pryor site and that clicker is not very loud at all. All I know is that when I pull that sucker out to train Millie on some new behavior, Millie gets so excited she is beside herself! She knows she is going to get high quality treats for some simple activity.
I trained her on many things, but recently trained her to go in her roll-a-way airline carrier and to stay in there, so that she was exposed to the thing before we got on the plane. While I practiced a few weeks before the flight, she got what I wanted within 2 sessions.
I noticed that with potty training after we clicked a few times at the right time with the potty and used the verbal "go potty", she would get down to business faster when we took her outside, because she understood what we expected of her to get the treat.
The clicker identifies the exact moment of the correct behavior and is an identifiable sound that equals treat, so they know they have done the correct thing at the time of the click, not the time of the treat. |