Refreshing my clicker training

Selina27

Selina27

Location
Herefordshire, UK
I'm going to be spending quite a few weeks this summer in my new role as minder for the 3 Labs and 1 JR that I posted about recently and think it would be fun to try and do some clicker training with the golden dog Oddy, who is about 5 . He is the most lovely natured bright boy who I think will enjoy it, plus it I will too!
First though I need to ask the owners if it is ok with them.
And I also need to remind myself how to go about it - any tips welcome.
I found this page on the PDSA site, it looks ok, but does anyone have any thoughts to offer?
www.pdsa.org.uk

Clicker training your dog

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edzbird

edzbird

Location
Isle of Man
Selina27 said:
I'm going to be spending quite a few weeks this summer in my new role as minder for the 3 Labs and 1 JR that I posted about recently and think it would be fun to try and do some clicker training with the golden dog Oddy, who is about 5 . He is the most lovely natured bright boy who I think will enjoy it, plus it I will too!
First though I need to ask the owners if it is ok with them.
And I also need to remind myself how to go about it - any tips welcome.
I found this page on the PDSA site, it looks ok, but does anyone have any thoughts to offer?
www.pdsa.org.uk

Clicker training your dog

Learn how to start clicker training your dog.
www.pdsa.org.uk www.pdsa.org.uk
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Excellent.

My initial "charging" I only use 10 treats then stop. Then repeat some time later, maybe 3 or 4 times. By then it's set in with my two. Also, when I've introduced clicker training to my dogs who both know stuff already, as I'm sure Oddy will, once I've "charged the clicker", I use it to mark some simple tasks like "sit" - so the dog gets an idea that the click is marking the desired response.
Also, 10 or 15 minutes seems rather long. Little and often has worked for us. I tend to keep it to 10 treats maximum, less if it's a difficult task. Meg especially really benefits from having time to process what she's just done.

Good luck, it will be huge fun.
 
Selina27

Selina27

Location
Herefordshire, UK
edzbird said:
Excellent.

My initial "charging" I only use 10 treats then stop. Then repeat some time later, maybe 3 or 4 times. By then it's set in with my two. Also, when I've introduced clicker training to my dogs who both know stuff already, as I'm sure Oddy will, once I've "charged the clicker", I use it to mark some simple tasks like "sit" - so the dog gets an idea that the click is marking the desired response.
Also, 10 or 15 minutes seems rather long. Little and often has worked for us. I tend to keep it to 10 treats maximum, less if it's a difficult task. Meg especially really benefits from having time to process what she's just done.

Good luck, it will be huge fun.
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Thank you Sue, that's all really helpful xx
Erm.. I don't think he knows much at all, but something about him tells me he'd like the learning xx
 
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