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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!  |
thank you so much!
i am thinking that the reason dogs would respond to clicks than "yes" is probably because we say "yes" in our conversations a lot, and they hear it and learn to also ignore it. but we don't click in our conversations. so they don't learn to ignore the clicks. what you think?
when i took milu to puppy class, i asked about clicker training, and was told that the word "yes" works just as well by the trainer.