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Originally Posted by jenstals What is clicker training? I have wondered that myself! |
It's really neat. I spent all night last night reading about it. You will want a professional to train you to it. It's opperant conditioning. It uses 100% positive rewards (something I believe strongly in the more I read). You use a clicker to "bookmark" the desired behavior.
For example...Let's say that I am trying to train an untrained dog to sit. I watch the dog for a time. Eventually he will sit. When he does so, I give a click and a treat. When he sits again, click - treat. I keep repeating this until the dog is coming over to me and sitting to get a treat. After he knows what's getting the "click" and following treat, I name the action. "Sit." And when he sits, "click-treat".
This method appears to be 100% foolproof and is used to train everything from cats to dolphins. Yes, they actually train cats to sit-stay-fetch in public, using this method. It really sounds amazing.
It's also used to de-sensitize dogs to stimulus that stress them out. You train AWAY bad behavior using the clicker. Seperation, barking, and agression all seem treatable using this method.
Here are some links for more reading.
http://www.clickertrain.com/articles/fisherpt2.shtml http://www.clickersolutions.com/index.html