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Originally Posted by gracielove  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. |
Absolutely all true. Repetition is the key to dogs learning to do something we want to teach them. And the dogs want to train - they beg for it once they learn what it involves and how rewarding and positive it all is for them. I couldn't stop training Tibbe if I wanted to - he wouldn't let me. He'd nag me to death until I gave in and ran him through all of his commands a couple of more times. And I almost always add something new for him to learn. He really like that.