[nagdu] Targeting with the clicker?

[Danielle Burton]

Nicole, I also do that for things you can't hang the bell on but the bell can be more efficient than this because it's fun for them to touch their nose to to cake noise and they seem to learn it quicker. It's a good one for teaching them to find doors and other things you can hang it on. But I really like the touch command. It's also good for distractions. Like move your hand around and ask fortouch to refocus the dog. 

Danielle and Willa 


> On Aug 23, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Nicole Torcolini via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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> 
> 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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