Clicker Training
Clicker Training
Simply put, clicker training is the greatest tool that is available to mankind for training dogs into total obedience.
What Is Clicker Training?
Clicker training is the process that trainers use to teach a dog or puppy to behave. This is done by using a conditioned reinforcer.
When the dog or puppy performs a behavior that you want, such as sitting down or kneeling, you simply “click the clicker” and the clicking sound marks in the dog’s memory the precise behavior that is correct. Afterwards, you reward your dog or puppy with a doggy treat or toy and that instantly trains them which behaviors are good and which ones are not.
How Does Clicker Training Work?
Clicker Training is an evolved form of reward training for dogs and puppies. Reward training is commonly thought of as a modern method of training a dog, but reward training is actually much older than you probably think, when compared to other methods of dog training.
Many principles of modern reward training date back many decades. In fact, early humans probably used some informal kind of reward training when taming the wolf pups that eventually evolved into modern dogs.
However, what is called reward training today has only enjoyed is remarkable popularity for the past 10 or 15 years.
Clicker training is one of the most popular forms of reward training today. It is a remarkably effective method of training your dog or puppy. In clicker training, your dog is taught to associate a clicking sound with a reward, like a treat. You then click the clicker when the dog does something good, followed immediately by a treat. Eventually, the dog learns to respond to the clicker alone.
Most clicker training uses some sort of food reward, or a reward that is associated with getting food. In most cases, complex behaviors can only be taught using this kind of positive reinforcement, and you will find that the people who train dogs for movies and television use reward training almost exclusively.
My friend, now is the time for you to use training methods that work!