Training the trio

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Training the trio

Posted : 6/24/2006 11:51:01 AM

I was reading the clicker training thread and thought it sounded interesting, and I was thinking that maybe my trio would benefit from it. They haven't had any classes or anything, but they are all really intelligent dogs so I think they might pick up on it pretty quickly. I saw someone posted about a clicker that lets you choose between multiple sounds, is there a link to that I can check out? Also, how would I go about training them separately? Would I have to take one outside in the yard and leave the others inside, or train inside and take one in a separate room, or what? Sorry about the dumb questions but the clicker thing is new to me. I checked out that clickertraining.com and I understand the process way better now. [

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Well, thanks for reading. The trio definitely knows who is in charge, but I basically want to work on better behavior (especially when there are distractions), and I also want to challenge their minds. I think this will be fun.

Gal Ziv

Posted : 7/17/2006 9:02:17 AM

I'm glad you are looking into clicker training. When training several dogs, it is wise to train each independently before increasing the difficulty and training when other dogs are present.

The first thing you would probably want to teach is the dogs' names. You want each dog to respond reliably to its name and then adding the cue after the name will only mean that it has to perform the cue.

In addition, you can train a group name that tells all your dogs to do something at the same time.
You can get the clicker that has several sounds on clickertraining.com

If you want to see training videos that really show you how to train each and every cue - go to:
[linkhttp://www.clickertrainusa.com]www.clickertrainusa.com[/link] and go to the training videos section.

God luck,
Gal

mudpuppy

Posted : 7/17/2006 10:59:16 AM

I don't really understand the need for a clicker with different noises. Generally you only need a clicker to teach a brand-new behavior, and if you're teaching a brand-new behavior you want one dog in a quiet, non-distracting environment.