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Originally Posted by cacbeary After my pup was born, I visited everyday until I got her. I practiced the clicker training on the Mom - she's not quite 2 yr old. I taught her to crawl. She would get so excited when I brought out the clicker! I printed up some lessons from http://www.clickerlessons.com/lessons.html for my Mom to work with her pup.
I bought a book for half price on the Internet but I thought the above was way more detailed in how to clickertrain (pictures & everything). You should check it out. You can buy clickers at Petco, Petsmart, etc. I ordered the i-click (softer click) online since mine were pups & the noise wouldn't scare them. They are so scared of everything at first. |
WOW - thanks for the link to the clicker lessons. I'm trying to do this on my own as we don't have any classes nearby. This is amazing for training puppies to stand on the table for examination by a judge and for gaiting on a lead. They simply take to the "game" like it was invented for them and they forget to be frightened or intimidated by things going on around them.
I trained my boy to run behind the kitchen table and hide whenever he heard the clicker. It was so frustrating. But I started just by making a mouth noise and giving him a treat and then proceeding to a clicker on an ink pen and then to one of the new generation of quiet clickers and now I can use any clicker. It's funny, but he was the first one I tried it on and the others have never been afraid of it, I guess simply by having heard it and watching that nothing bad happened.
CJ