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11-30-2009, 03:06 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker | Clickers? i bought a clicker to train my dog. It was very inexpensive and figured why not! I have never used one, but I have also never had issues training any of my pets. I have a 5 month old Yorkie who will NOT come to save his life. He does it ONLY when he wants too. I was wondering if anyone has used those, and if so were they any good?
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11-30-2009, 03:35 PM | #2 |
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| I don't use mine exactly as intended...but I give my girls a treat every time they run to me when I click it. It is soooo easy to click it twice and have 5 Yorkies at my feet waiting for their reward. I bought four of them so I can attach one to the jackets I wear when I am out with the dogs.
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11-30-2009, 05:38 PM | #4 |
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| Clicker training is great if you use it as intended: for marking desired behavior Here is a very good resource for clicker training.. Clicker Training Basics | Karen Pryor Clickertraining
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11-30-2009, 07:59 PM | #5 | |
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Read "Don't Shoot the Dog" and watch some of the videos. I saw one video where they had clicker trained a cat, horse, and fish!!! You can get "Clicker Puppy" on Netflix.
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11-30-2009, 08:29 PM | #6 | |
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11-30-2009, 09:01 PM | #7 |
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| Clicker training was an EPIC fail here. The noise was like fingers on a chalkboard to our yorkie! She just hated it--not matter how big the treat. She regressed in all behaviors when we used it. So, it went in the drawer of shame and we renewed our reward positive behavior plan. It works great! |
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12-03-2009, 10:15 AM | #9 |
Yorkie Yakker | so far so good!!! Yoda is responding very well with it. I have to buy different treats or else he may get burned out on the ones that I have. I didn't do it the way the pack that it came in suggested, BUT I will say I will not "clicked" it if I do not have a treat handy and I only use it for the positive, not when he does something wrong (like have an accident). So I am going to give it a big thumbs up!
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12-03-2009, 04:54 PM | #10 |
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| There are two quiet clickers you can try. One is by Premier (the purple one) and the second is a battery operated clicker by Karen Pryor and you can choose different sounds. But you can save your money if you just use a retractable ball point pen.
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12-04-2009, 12:55 PM | #11 |
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| The clicker that Karen Pryor sells makes a softer sound that my yorkies respond to very well |
12-06-2009, 10:44 PM | #12 |
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| I read that you can also use a word not normally used in conversation instead of a clicker, such as "bueno," or "excellent." Like the clicker, you give a treat after you say the word, rewarding the dog for good behavior. You want to say the word while the dog is in the process of doing a good thing, but only say the word once. |
12-06-2009, 11:25 PM | #13 |
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| I haven't tried a clicker, but found the Tamar Geller training video on "teaching your dog to come" very helpful. You can watch it here: Training Videos Presented by Dog Life Coach Tamar Geller | The Humane Society of the United States
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12-08-2009, 01:14 PM | #14 |
Yorkie Yakker | sad thing is... I have labs too (3 of them) and a peek-a-poo, and even though we sent them to obidience school, they hear the clicker and they almost trample my baby trying to get a treat, and the clicker isn't even meant for them. UGH! I'm exhausted!!!
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12-08-2009, 01:16 PM | #15 |
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| I've used them to train my show dogs. And swear by them.
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