How does a clicker work for training dogs?
Thursday, August 19th, 2010 at
5:08 pm
What purpose does it serve? Does the dog know what it is or what it does?
Tagged with: Clicker • Dogs • Training • work
Filed under: Dog Clicker Training
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I bought one but my dogs were scared to death of the noise. I think the old fashioned treat method works the best.
I’m just learning to clicker train my dog and she is responding well. Once the clicker is introduced, the dog will associate the noise of the clicker to be equal to praise. Start by clicking the clicker once and giving your dog a treat. They will soon associate that the clicker means reward.
The method of clicker training can be compaired to dolphin training with a whistle. The dolphin knows its doing something right when it hears that whistle, so it strives to work for the whistle.
It’s a specific and distinctive ‘marker’ sound. It is used to mark a specific behavior as desirable with a sound they aren’t likely to hear for any other reason. Dogs don’t automatically know what it means. You have to teach them. You do this by pairing the clicker with a treat. When you are introducing it, you don’t ask them to do anything- you click and give a treat repeatedly until everytime you click, the dog is looking for the reward. Then you can begin to use it to mark good behavior. It will come to mean “You did good, there’s a reward coming soon!”. Dogs only associate their actions with the very immediate consequence, so while you are fumbling for treats, toys, etc to reward, the dog may not associate the reward with the action he did.
i click and use whistles with my mouth, I can never find physical clickers when I need them. My dogs have their own “nonword” language that they understand and respond to. I also keep a physical whistle that stays on my keychain that they understand at a distance.
Hi,
A clicker just marks good behavior. You can teach them what the clicker means by just clicking and treating, clicking and treating… The dog should catch on fairly quickly. The purpose of the clicker is to let the dog know that the behavior he did when you clicked the clicker was correct and you liked what he did. He also associates the click with the fact that a reward or treat is coming because of the good behavior he did when you clicked.
For more info on clicker training, try these links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnRSeuHD_fg
http://www.clickertraining.com/basics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clicker_training
http://www.kennel-corner.co.uk/clicker-training.html
Good Luck !
Hi,
Clicker training lets the dog know he’s doing what you want precisely when he does it by marking the behavior with a click sound. Your dog will be motivated to work for the clicks because you follow them with tasty treats. Here’s more info:
http://iavabi.notlong.com
The clicker is a marker that signals that the behavior the dog did has just earned him a reinforcement (early on, usually a treat, later, all sorts of things). The dog needs to learn what it means, and while many people will simply pair the click with the treat, I don’t. Instead I teach an easy behavior, either down in the bathroom, or hand targeting, so that the dog learns early on that his behavior is what is making the click happen.
For more information on clicker training, watch the following short video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC367wKGi4M&feature=PlayList&p=B70B4C5BBACD3598&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=26
Also browse around http://www.clickersolutions.com and http://www.clickertraining.com
If you want a really good resource for training your dog, check out http://www.canisclickertraining.com, and http://www.dragonflyllama.com