{"id":5097,"date":"2011-05-29T16:19:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T16:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cattle.ru\/?p=5097"},"modified":"2011-05-29T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T16:19:43","slug":"i-used-to-wonder-curiously-about-clicker-obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cattle.ru\/?p=5097","title":{"rendered":"I used to wonder curiously about clicker obedience training for dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to wonder curiously about clicker obedience training for dogs. But then, my neighbor said that clickers are not meant for obedience training and they are only fit for making a dog perform circus-like tricks and stunts.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I agreed with my neighbor. Those clickers seemed annoying to me and I didn&#8217;t believe that anyone would be able to teach obedience training commands to their dogs with that constant clicking sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I couldn&#8217;t be more wrong!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Listen, one day I was browsing a video site and this clicker obedience training video caught my attention. It was really well-shot, unlike some of those flimsy homemade clicker videos you often see on the web.<\/p>\n<p>The video was made by a team of professional dog trainers specialized in clicker obedience training for dogs. So they designed a comprehensive clicker training course with videos which I downloaded straight to my computer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>After several home training sessions with my dog Brylow\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I must say their clicker training principles and techniques are spot on!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 3 &#8220;super trainer&#8221; tips that helped me the most during training are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip 1 \u2013<\/strong> To clicker train your dog effectively, you need to employ a large variety of positive reinforcers. This means you should allow your dog to play with several different toys\/object. The same goes for treats. Use many different ones for better end result.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip 2 \u2013<\/strong> High clicking rate is crucial during the first few training sessions. Make sure your dog is able to earn a single click at a rate of every 3 \u2013 5 seconds. <strong>This method works really well when I first conducted a clicker crate training session with Brylow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tip 3 \u2013 <\/strong>Minimize sloppy training. This means <strong>you should avoid the following during clicker obedience training:<\/strong> bending over your dog, repeated cues, nagging, and luring.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re interested in discovering everything from A \u2013 Z about training your dog with a clicker, follow this link: <strong>http:\/\/www.positivehomedogtraining.com\/<\/strong> to get download details. Apply the steps outlined in the complete manual and remember to watch those videos as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to wonder curiously about clicker obedience training for dogs. But then, my neighbor said that clickers are not meant for obedience training and they are only fit for making a dog perform circus-like tricks and stunts. At first, I agreed with my neighbor. Those clickers seemed annoying to me and I didn&#8217;t believe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cattle.ru\/?p=5097\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I used to wonder curiously about clicker obedience training for dogs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[309,308,271,45,9],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cattle","tag-computer","tag-download","tag-manual","tag-team","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cattle.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cattle.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cattle.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cattle.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cattle.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cattle.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cattle.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cattle.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cattle.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}