Clickertraining For Dogs Made Easy

Employing clicker training for dogs is one of the most effective training methods going today. It’s popularity not only stems from the fact that it’s not painful to the dog, but in the fact that it’s powerfully effective. Good behavior is rewarded  using behavioral psychology as the motivation. This method of training involves ‘marking’ the good behavior with a click from the clicker, enabling the dog to know it’s done something good and will receive a treat .

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This clicking when coupled with positive reinforcement is a powerful way and a humane way to train almost any animal. It sure beats the old ’shocker’ methods that hurt the animals. Its astonishing really,how much your dog wants to please you. Dog training involves communication with your pet and this can sometimes prove difficult. The clicker method of dog training seems to clarify that for your dog.

This is called ‘operant conditioning’. The dog will intentionally so something to bring about the desired ending. Dogs tend to grade places,people and objects according to whether they associate them with a pleasurable experience or not. Its really a form of conditioning.

Once the dog learns that it gets a reward for certain behavior, then it will repeat the good behavior over and over again. This conditioning is how the dog is trained. This form of conditioning gives you a dog with purposeful behavior and other forms can give you habitual behavior. When the two come together you get a potent form of training.

There is a good reason for using the clicker sound as it is consistent whilst the human voice can change inflection and pace meaning that the dog can not always understand us.Communication again! The dog quickly learns to associate the sound of the clicker with acceptable behavior and reward.

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The Dolphin is one of the other animals that this method has been used on. I’d say that it’s pretty much impossible to force a Dolphin to do something, so methods like this have to be employed in order to train them. And it’s been very successful in doing so, and has since been used on a lot of other animals as well. From cats and leopards, to birds and rabbits, this method has seen great results.

Start the click whils the dog is actually doing the desired behavior, dont wait until he has finished. Give a click and a treat before the behavior and after the behavior is complete. You should click when your dog does something you would like him to repeat, that way you reinforce the message. The clicks should remain constant but you can increase the treats as rewards for a particular type of behavior.

Using clicker training for dogs can enable you to communicate with your dog in a positive way that you weren’t able to do before. By rewarding good behavior after a performed behavior done on cue, you’ll find that your dog enjoys displaying this good behavior. Punishing bad behavior can sometimes produce even more bad behavior, even though it may curb the selected bad behavior to a point. Positive re-enforcement in the proper way is the best approach for getting your dog to perform in a positive manner.

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