I know some people love clicker training but it never would have worked for Gracie since she is not really food motivated. When she was young I had a hard time getting her to eat her food so filling her up on treats would not have been a good thing as far as getting her to eat what she was supposed to eat.
Any kind of training just takes a lot of repetition and reward. They do need to learn key words and phrases and praise and reward are good ways of reinforcing the right behavior. Training has to be done on a daily basis and you have to keep reenforcing the training once they learn. Once class isn't enough to train a dog. A class is to teach the owner what to do on a daily basis in order to communicate with the dog. |