Clicker Training Your Dog - What Is It?
Clicker Training is training using positive reinforcement - teaching your dog to learn - using no physical compulsion or corrections whatsoever. Instead of yanking dogs around, shoving them into place, giving some praise, and hoping the dog will make the connection, dogs are taught using the scientific methods of classical and operant conditioning.
This is the same method used to train the whales and dolphins and other creatures at Sea World. Anyone who’s been there knows that these wondrous creatures perform flawlessly for audience after audience and, at the same time, enjoy doing it.
The enjoyment feature is the key. You love you dogs and you want them to be responsive, but you dislike hurting them! With clicker training you don’t have to. This training works for every dog, from bold to timid, from tiny to giant. It is the same training method used to train animals for movie and TV work.
