[nagdu] Targeting with the clicker?

[Nicole Torcolini]

LOL, okay, that's a new one. Luckily, Lexia never figured that one out. What
they tell us at the schools is to teach them to target your hand first. You
have the dog touch your hand, possibly using a treat in your hand to help
direct the dog to your hand, and click for touching your hand. Once they get
touch hand = click = treat, you put a word to it, such as touch. Then you
start directing them with your hand. Put hand on chair, touch chair. Then
you take the touch out of it, chair. Then you take your hand out of it. Of
course, you don't do all this at one time. Some dogs learn faster than
others. Deryl, hopefully, this is the information that you were looking for.

Nicole

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Valerie Gibson
via nagdu
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2014 4:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] Targeting with the clicker?

That depends on how you're targeting.

If you're using your hand, you could hang the clicker from your wrist, if
the dog touches your hand, flick the clicker in your hand and click and
praise or treat.

That's as far as I got with Zion in the clicker training.  I could never use
the clicker. I had to use a word instead, because Zion would try to grab th
eclicker himself, and bite the button so it  clicked. Sometimes, he
succeeded.  

Valerie and Zion
On Aug 23, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Daryl Marie via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> For those of you who use clicker training, I have a couple of questions?
> 
> I have started training Jenny with the clicker; we've had reasonable
success with it on things like keeping pace, avoiding dog distractions,
leaving tasty ground candy alone... Since using the clicker in general, she
has gotten much better about finding counters, empty chairs, and even
garbage cans.
> 
> But how do you target with the clicker?  Obviously when the dog does
something you want, you click and treat or click and praise, but beforehand?
Confused.
> 
> Daryl and Jenny (who did pretty well in the bakery today!)
> 
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