- Introduction to Clicker Training – Part 1
- Introduction to Clicker Training – Part 2: Teaching Tricks (Hand Targeting, Spin and Beg)
- Introduction to Clicker Training – Part 3: Teaching Down & Stay
- Teaching a dog to go to its bed (using clicker training)
- Teaching a dog to ‘Bow’ and ‘Reverse / Back Up’
- How to choreograph a dog dancing routine
- Teaching a dog to pick up toys and put them in a basket
- Teaching your dog to “Say Your Prayers”/Put paws up on something
- Teaching your dog to cover itself with a blanket
- Teaching your dog to rest its chin on something
- Teaching your dog to get you a tissue
I’ve added these lesson to my favorites. Can’t wait to get a clicker and start training Earl!
A very nice site you have, was wondering if you have any advance clicker training. Thanks.
Cheers,
Great videos! Thanks so much!!! Honey is so cute and so well behaved!! We have started our clicker training with Coffee
I cant wait to teach him “thank you”!!!
Thanks!!
Hey Honey.
Do you have any instructions on teaching marching paws?
That’s yet another one on my show-off brother’s list of things to learn.
Your site is the best!
Stanislaw
traning for everything
Greetings from Germany!
We (Great Dane Minnie and her human Nathalie) love your Videos we learned so much tricks and have a lot of fun by practicing them!
We love you!
I am from Hanoi, Vietnam. Clicker training is quite new in Vietnam. My friend will send clicker to me soon when he comes back from Australia.
Your videos are so helpful to me.
Thank you so much!
Hallo Hsin – Yi ! I am from Russia . Your site is the best! Honey – super!. We have started our clicker training with my Great Dane”s . Your videos are helpful to as.Thank you so much!
Hello!! I found your website, I enjoy what I see:)
You do a great job with your human:)
Hugs from Great Dane friends from Sweden
Hi honey!
this week we meet a 4 years old great Dane from out town!
Sara found out that she was also into free styling and also knew your blog! how exiting was that!
you know here in Portugal there aren’t any freestyle classes yet, cause there few people practicing!
anyway, now that we found a neighbor that is also interested we feel so much more motivated to star training again!
we are even considering asking the Portuguese obedience champion to create a class of freestyle in his school (that is also in out town!!
)
but this will have to wait a few months, because my new great Dane friend named GEMA has an anger issue that she’s working with a trainer… only after this, her human will feel confident to take her to a class with other pups
I think she’ll do just fine!
She was rescued last year, and we don’t know much about her past… so her human is still working with her!
and by the way… she’s so smart! she can do lot’s of tricks already, like spin, walk back, wave, marching legs…
I was really impressed!
I wanted to ask you to keep teaching us new tricks please!!!
big kisses from Pu and Sara
Hi Honey is a great dog. I just got me a German Shepard pup, named him Alucard. I watched your videos on clicker training and worked with him and he picked sit up quick. I was wondeing if theres a good order to teach him others like lay, stay, and ect. Also your videos have shown me alot.
Thank You
Chris, and Alucard
Hi Chris – glad you’re finding the videos helpful. There is no rule for which order to teach the commands/tricks in – it is up to you. Different dogs will find different thinfs harder. I would recommend teaching Down after Sit as that is an important one – and a natural progression. And then teach Stay in the Down position, gradually progressing to further distance away and longer time (I’ve done a video on that). Once he is doing Stay well in the Down position, you can try Stay in the Sit position – but remember, you will have to go back a few steps – don’t expect him to do a Sit Stay for as long or as far as he can in Down Stay. Dogs don’t generalise well and a Sit Stay is a completely different thing to him than a Down Stay.
“Come” is also an important command to teach. For that, you call the dog and click AS SOON AS he starts moving towards you – and always make a big fuss & treat as soon as he gets to you (don’t try to make him sit, etc – the important thing is that he came to you, not what he does when he arrives). Gradually only click him as he gets closer to you – finally only click & reward when he arrives in front of you and lets you put a hand on his collar. Then start trying to call him with distractions. Take him somewhere a bit more interesting/exciting and start again from the beginning – calling & reward as soon as he moves towards you. If you’re worried he will run off, leave a long line attached to his collar. Keep testing him in different environments and gradually making things harder (more exciting – other dogs & people there) so he gets better at ignoring distractions and always coming when called. But very important to start in a QUIET place – don’t start teaching Come in the park – it will be too hard and if he doesn’t come, you will have taught him to ignore you. Don’t set him up to fail. Start in a quiet place (eg, your living room) where you know he can do it successfully. The VERY SLOWLY make it harder.
Good luck!
Hsin-Yi
Hi Honey, I loved your clicker training videos and was inspired to get a clicker and try it for myself, but when I ‘clicked’ my dog freaked and hid!
I hope this doesn’t mean we will have to give it up
Hi Linda – some dogs are noise sensitive and so will find the CLICK of the clicker a bit frightening at first. You can try getting a different clicker – there is a kind called an “i-Click” which makes a quieter sound than the classic box clicker. Or a simpler/cheaper method is just to muffle your box clicker by wrapping a cloth around it or putting it in your pocket before you click. It may just take a bit of time but if you just keep clicking & treating a lot, your dog will gradually associate the click with good things (treats) and get over his fear.
If your dog is still scared of the noise, then you can always use a verbal marker – such as the word “YES!” – it isn’t as effective/clear as the clicker but it will still work to mark the action. A lot of people use verbal markers instead of clickers, especially if they find it difficult to coordinate holding the clicker & treats and manoeuvre the dog, etc. Just make sure that you always say it in the same tone and volume and speed – try to keep it as consistent as possible. Don’t use the “yes” word to try and convey your emotions – keep it neutral, like the CLICK sound. Hope this helps!
Thanks Honey.
I’m thinking I might just say ‘click’!
Will give it a go anyway, wish us luck!