A “clicker” is a plastic capsule which is a strip of metal. When you with your thumb on the “strip” button, you hear a metallic “click” (sound). With clicker training the dog to be taught that the sound of the clicker means he has earned a reward. You make clear to your dog what behavior you want him to learn, by “clicking” at the very moment the dog the desired behavior. Because the dog has learned the sound of the clicker to associate with a deserved reward, which he will conduct you click increasingly repeat.

What are the benefits of clicker training? When a dog want to learn a certain behavior, such that he should sit down if you’re saying, then there are basically two possibilities:

1. The Traditional Method, Based on Correcting the Wrong Behavior

When this method your dog to SIT to learn, give your dog to sit. Your dog has no idea what you mean, so he stops. Now you give the line a jerk (you) up and / or you push his rear down. The dog learns in the first instance that when you say IS there then bad things happen (you pulls his chain and / or pushing on his rear). IS is not fun.

The aanleerfase the dog still did not understand what is meant when you said IS. Understand why the dog can not understand you correct him or pushes his rear (what a dog is annoying). After some time the dog learns that he can prevent you from tears or pushes himself to sit through if you’re saying. IS is therefore less annoying (but still fun). The motivation of the dog to sit is a negative motivation, meaning he sits down because otherwise nasty things happen.

And you can expect problems when the dog away from your corrections. If you teach the dog to walk nicely beside you when you say TRACKING by him every time he does not jerk the line to give, you should not expect the dog will learn to also follow your commands without a leash nice to walk beside you! His motivation to walk beside you (the prevention of a tug on his chain) it is completely gone once the line is not to his chain.

2. The Clickermethode, Based on the Marking and Rewarding Desired Behavior

When you according to your dog to SIT clickertrainingsmethode want to learn, then it goes as follows. You have the clicker and a reward in your hand (you have your dog the meaning of the clicker already learned). Most dogs in the sight of a reward in your hand himself inclined to, whether or not after a while, you sit down. Does your dog or not that helps him a hand by the treat above his nose to keep it slowly tilted up / to the rear. Once the dog sits, “clickt” you and give you the dog after his reward. Blazing fast your dog will learn to sit him a reward.

The dog learns this way that great things happen when you want to teach him something. He actively participates in the learning process by itself to figure out what to expect (by active attitude learns faster and remembers it better). This way of learning in line with how a dog learns behavior itself, ie by actively trying out things and behavior has to repeat that success. This positive motivation is there when the dog is leashed. The clicker and rewarding with treats are also exclusively used to teach new behavior. When the dog knows the exercise once, are using the clicker and rewarding with treats again reduced.

Clicker training is one way of training suitable for all dogs (and other animals). Where once the dog has discovered that he himself could see that he is rewarded, he will constantly try to correct that to do what the boss wants from him. Thus the dog learns the behavior itself that the boss wants the dog learns. And that behavior can be anything from sitting and lying not to draw the line, followed, not bounce, come here or go to his place!

Author Bio: Bruno is blogging about pomeranian and Mops (pug dogs) at Hundefeber.no.

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