Clicker Training
Has anyone clicker trained an animal?
Clicker Training
I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with the clicker training method. Click-treat.
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Charis
I definitely did with my first dog. She's 7 years old now and very obedient. Clicker training is quite effective, aha.
Clicker training (also known as magazine training) is a method for training animals that uses positive reinforcement in conjunction with a clicker, or small mechanical noisemaker, to mark the behavior being reinforced. The clicker is used during the acquisition phase of training a new behavior, to allow the animal to rapidly identify the precise behavior of interest.
I’ve never done it myself, but I’ve heard people who have. It always seemed kind of pointless to me. Maybe I never fully understood the process, but I don’t see how it would work.
It works very well. You should watch some Karen Pryor youtube videos. It's amazing how it works. If the animal does what it's told or is moving in that direction, you click then give a little treat.
Oh thanks. =)Humby wrote:Clicker training (also known as magazine training) is a method for training animals that uses positive reinforcement in conjunction with a clicker, or small mechanical noisemaker, to mark the behavior being reinforced. The clicker is used during the acquisition phase of training a new behavior, to allow the animal to rapidly identify the precise behavior of interest.
And no I have never used that.
Wikipedia has an article that explains it well.bookworm wrote:I’ve never done it myself, but I’ve heard people who have. It always seemed kind of pointless to me. Maybe I never fully understood the process, but I don’t see how it would work.