Clicker Training Your Dog

"Clicker Training Kit for Dogs" "Everything you need to get started! This kit includes the new expanded edition of Getting Started: Clicker Training for Dogs, an i-Click, a quick-reference instruction booklet on the essentials of clicker training, and a sample of dog treats. This kit is a great way to get you started with a new puppy, an adopted dog, or an older dog that just didn't respond well to conventional choke-chain training. You'll see a difference in your dog in just a few short sessions! This Kit includes: The New Expanded Getting Started Clicker Training for Dogs Book (approx. 50 pages), an i-Click, an open out instruction booklet teaching how to use the clicker itself, and a sample of dog treats."

THE INS AND OUTS OF CLICKER TRAINING

Why is clicker training effective?

When an animal intentionally performs a behavior in order to bring about a desired consequence, as clicker trained animals do, they are learning in a way that researchers call "operant conditioning."

Animals (and people) may also associate an action, event, place, person, or object with a consequence, whether pleasant or unpleasant. The more a certain event or environment is paired with a particular consequence, the stronger the association. This type of learning is called "classical conditioning" and represents reflexive or automatic behavior, rather than intentional behavior.

While clicker training initially employs classical conditioning, it quickly becomes operant conditioning as soon as the animal intentionally repeats an action in order to earn a reward. Training through operant conditioning results in purposeful behavior, while training through classical conditioning results in habitual behavior. READ MORE...