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You are now ready to build in a short delay between the click and the
delivery of the treat. This is important as you won't always be able to give
the treat instantly i.e. if the dog is at a distance when you click. However,
you still need him to know that whenever he hears the click, he was
offering the correct behaviour and a reward is coming his way. The delay is
also useful to give you time to access your treats, you don't want to always
have food in your hand or your dog will soon learn to ignore you unless
he can see the food. Keeping the food in your treat bag until you have clicked will help to avoid
this.
1.
offer your dog the target stick as before and click as soon as his nose touches the stick, but
wait 2 seconds before delivering the treat.
2.
repeat several times as above but vary the length of time before delivering the treat to
anywhere between 1-5 seconds (any longer and he may lose interest). remember you must
still always click as soon as his nose touches the end of the stick.
3.
You can now also vary the way in which you deliver the treat. Sometimes feed him from
your hand, sometimes throw the treat onto the floor (near the dog at first until he gets the
idea). Throwing the treat is useful for speeding up slow dogs or for encouraging the dog to
move away from you - essential for distance
4.
once he is reliably offering the behaviour every time the stick is produced, you can start to
add a 'command' or 'cue' to the behaviour such as 'touch'.
Congratulations, you have now clicker trained your first behaviour.
Now you can go on to use your clicker to train your dog to do any other behaviour you choose.
You can use your clicker for all your training or just for specific parts - it's up to you!
When thinking about training a new exercise, consider how best to achieve the desired response.
The two most common ways of clicker training are 'luring' and 'shaping'.
•
Luring;
You can lure the dog into the desired position by encouraging him to follow food (or
the target stick, once learnt) and then clicking as soon as he exhibits the correct behaviour.
This can be a fast way to train, particularly for fairly simple behaviours such as sit, down,
spin, take a bow.
•
Shaping;
With shaping, you click any correct step (no matter how small) towards the
behaviour you want, then click and treat every successive movement until you have the
desired behaviour. This requires a little more patience but is very effective particularly for
more complicated behaviours or sequences such as walk to heel, retrieve an item or send
away to an object.
Sit
1.
Hold a treat between your thumb and first finger and allow your dog to sniff it.
2.
Slowly raise the treat up and back over his head so his nose follows it.
3.
As his head goes up, his bottom should go down onto the floor. Click and
treat the moment it does.
4.
Don't worry if it takes a few attempts, be patient!
5.
repeat as above.
6.
once he is reliably offering the behaviour every time, you can start to add the command
'sit'.
Training other behaviours
Further things to try
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