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Originally Posted by KJLive  I'm going to assume you've not used clicker training. If you have, please accept my apologies for repeating what you already know.  But in short, with a clicker, the first thing you do is "load" for a week. have your puppy sit with you and "click" then treat. Repeat for about 25 times everyday. (this is when very small teeny tiny bits of treats come in handy. I would cut mine up so small) Once they associate click = treat, you've got it licked. Now the theory is to use the click as a "marker". The theory should work that you say "dog'sname here", come". When they come, you then click and hand them the treat simutaneously. But I will cheat occasionally and yell "Sophie...come" and then click. She hears that click and wherever she is at in the house she comes running cause she knows she'll get a treat. Eventually I stopped the click and just yelled "sophie come" and she would come knowing that it meant a treat. But basically, there's not much difference between "yes" and "click". They are both markers. But for some reason she responded to the clicker better than my "yes" marker. Hope that helps!  |
We learned clicker training at obedience classes and I will say, Tatum doesn't need the clicker anymore but still to this day, if I dig it out of the drawer and click it, she's by my side in a shot! She still remembers that "click" equals "treat"!
And by the way, you described the clicker training method very well. If I hadn't known what it was, that would have been great to hear. The "loading" part is very important and I think you did a great job explaining all of that.