Comments on: Clicker Training & Tricks http://bighoneydog.com drooling, dancing and a few adventures in between... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:37:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: michelle http://bighoneydog.com/clickertraining/#comment-28703 michelle Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:05:32 +0000 http://bighoneydog.com/?page_id=3423#comment-28703 :) :D :) Thank you so much!!!! I follow you advise and restarted with the "touch"! it did help to get the click thing! we then moved to new "comands" and learning. I also try to relax more and as you said mix other methods that goes more with my puppy and I favorite games, toys and places. The clicker is great though. Another good key was finally finding a treat my dog really likes. Cant tell you how thankful I am, for your encouraging words and all you share. Its inspiring, funny, a great pleasure to watch. If you´re ever in France you can send me an email for anything you need, I really mean it. All my best wishes for you and Honey! You guys are awesome :) :) :D :) Thank you so much!!!! I follow you advise and restarted with the “touch”! it did help to get the click thing! we then moved to new “comands” and learning. I also try to relax more and as you said mix other methods that goes more with my puppy and I favorite games, toys and places. The clicker is great though. Another good key was finally finding a treat my dog really likes.
Cant tell you how thankful I am, for your encouraging words and all you share. Its inspiring, funny, a great pleasure to watch.
If you´re ever in France you can send me an email for anything you need, I really mean it.

All my best wishes for you and Honey! You guys are awesome :)

]]> By: bighoneydog http://bighoneydog.com/clickertraining/#comment-28481 bighoneydog Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:54:21 +0000 http://bighoneydog.com/?page_id=3423#comment-28481 Hi Michelle, Congratulations on your new pup! I love Pugs and they would be my 2nd choice of dog, I think, after a Great Dane! In answer to your question, yes, of course you can start again - you can start clicker-training any time. But it might be a good idea to start again with a new action - teach a totally different, new thing (eg. "Touch" - that is one of the easiest first things with a clicker and really helps the dog to understand the concept). Also, don't worry if you didn't teach Sit using the clicker correctly - you don't have to teach everything with a clicker. I didn't start clicker training Honey until she was 3yrs old - so she learnt all her basic Obedience commands just with luring & rewards - the old-fashioned way! Sit is a very simple action that most dogs can learn easily, using any method - I only used it in my video to demonstrate because it is one of the simplest things that most dogs can do but it doesn't matter if you taught it using another way - as long as your pup understands when you say "Sit" and does it correctly, then that's fine. So don't worry - dog training is not like a religion where you must choose only ONE method over everything else. You can use a variety of different methods and you may find that some techniques work better with some commands or in some situations - and others work better in others. Just mix & match and find out what works best for your dog. Good luck! Hsin-Yi ps. your English is great - don't apologise! pps. I hope you'll come and say hello to us on Honey's blog (www.bighoneydog.com/honeys-blog) - this page is just a static page which I don't update often - but if you come to her blog, you will see regular updates on all her adventures + also training & behaviour information. Hi Michelle,

Congratulations on your new pup! I love Pugs and they would be my 2nd choice of dog, I think, after a Great Dane!

In answer to your question, yes, of course you can start again -- you can start clicker-training any time. But it might be a good idea to start again with a new action -- teach a totally different, new thing (eg. “Touch” -- that is one of the easiest first things with a clicker and really helps the dog to understand the concept).

Also, don’t worry if you didn’t teach Sit using the clicker correctly -- you don’t have to teach everything with a clicker. I didn’t start clicker training Honey until she was 3yrs old -- so she learnt all her basic Obedience commands just with luring & rewards -- the old-fashioned way! Sit is a very simple action that most dogs can learn easily, using any method -- I only used it in my video to demonstrate because it is one of the simplest things that most dogs can do but it doesn’t matter if you taught it using another way -- as long as your pup understands when you say “Sit” and does it correctly, then that’s fine.

So don’t worry -- dog training is not like a religion where you must choose only ONE method over everything else. You can use a variety of different methods and you may find that some techniques work better with some commands or in some situations -- and others work better in others. Just mix & match and find out what works best for your dog.

Good luck!
Hsin-Yi
ps. your English is great -- don’t apologise!
pps. I hope you’ll come and say hello to us on Honey’s blog (www.bighoneydog.com/honeys-blog) -- this page is just a static page which I don’t update often -- but if you come to her blog, you will see regular updates on all her adventures + also training & behaviour information.

]]> By: michelle http://bighoneydog.com/clickertraining/#comment-28389 michelle Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:23:13 +0000 http://bighoneydog.com/?page_id=3423#comment-28389 hi there everyone!! this is Mica from France a great great fan of honey the great dane :) watched almost every episode since I was getting a dog and wanted to get some training tips. thing is I finaly got a little pug two weeks ago but its like I forgot everything I saw! Its my first puppy and Im kind of nervous and very much exited. I have been watching again the honey clicker training videos and I realized I got some things bad. CAN ANYONE PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME IF ITS POSSIBLE TO START CLICKER TRAINING ALL OVER AGAIN?!! I mean, charge the clicker again, like lets say DAY ONE? cuz I´ve also been asking him to sit, but always saing "SIT" instead of waiting for him to do it and then introduce the word. Its sort of a really simple thing, but I dont wanna get frustrated on clicker training, seems like a great mediator between the dog and you. And this lil guy is just the best thing thats happening to me now, I wanna have a really good comunication with him. So any advise will be so so helpfull. Thank you so much for your time. If anyone can give a hand I will appreciate it like you have no idea :) sorry for my low english bisous pour tout le monde!! hi there everyone!!
this is Mica from France a great great fan of honey the great dane :) watched almost every episode since I was getting a dog and wanted to get some training tips. thing is I finaly got a little pug two weeks ago but its like I forgot everything I saw! Its my first puppy and Im kind of nervous and very much exited. I have been watching again the honey clicker training videos and I realized I got some things bad. CAN ANYONE PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME IF ITS POSSIBLE TO START CLICKER TRAINING ALL OVER AGAIN?!! I mean, charge the clicker again, like lets say DAY ONE? cuz I´ve also been asking him to sit, but always saing “SIT” instead of waiting for him to do it and then introduce the word.
Its sort of a really simple thing, but I dont wanna get frustrated on clicker training, seems like a great mediator between the dog and you. And this lil guy is just the best thing thats happening to me now, I wanna have a really good comunication with him.

So any advise will be so so helpfull. Thank you so much for your time. If anyone can give a hand I will appreciate it like you have no idea :)

sorry for my low english

bisous pour tout le monde!!

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