How to train pet dogs with clickers?

The clicker training method is becoming more and more popular, and it is called the happy training method by many people. It does not need to be beaten or forced dog. It can let your dog learn all kinds of small skills you want it to learn in a short time, and it is not easy to forget.

The clicker training method has several advantages:

Dogs are happy when they study.

The dog who used to be inattentive, through a period of clicker training, obviously felt that his attention was being placed more and more on the owner,the frequency of staring at the owner has increased significantly.

Many dogs don’t like to play with their owners. After training for a period of time, they will become very fond of interacting with their owners.

There are three ways of clicker training:

One is the induction method, the other is the capture method, and the other is the shaping method.

The induction method is faster but not precise, and often leads to confusion. The capture method is more natural and accurate, but the initial training time is longer. Shaping method is actually to decompose the behavior or movement to be trained into many similar steps, and then train them with the capture method and connect the similar steps to form the behavior or movement that we want to train.

Induction method: Use snacks to induce the dog to produce the behavior or action expected by the trainer. Once the dog does the right thing, press the clicker, and then give the snack reward.

Capture method: Do not use snacks, gestures or sounds… and other prompts, carefully observe the dog’s behavior or movements, once the dog has the behavior or movement expected by the trainer, immediately press the clicker and then give the snack reward .

Shaping method: Do not use snacks or gestures and other prompts at all. Observe the dog’s behavior or movements carefully. Once the dog starts to follow the behavior or action expected by the trainer, immediately press the clicker and then give the snack reward. It can also be said that the steps of decomposing the behavior or movement expected by the trainer, each step is trained by the capture method, and gradually connected into the behavior or movement expected by the trainer.