So that’s the training we are doing with Zoe (the puppy). I take her to Petsmart for class every Saturday. It’s fun. I LOVE clicker training and highly recommend it to anyone. I also think it would work well for any age dog since most dogs like to eat and “loading the clicker” is how you begin the training.
Zoe picks things up pretty quickly. We have been working on “leave it” which has been a tad harder than the other commands. Not too long ago, Bella was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and out of the corner of my eye, I saw Zoe jump up and steal half her sandwich. I yelled “leave it”. I was a bit late on saying leave it, however Zoe dropped the sandwich and stood there, with her body shaking, ready for me to say “OK take it”. So I was able to grab the sandwich and give it back to Bella. LOL just kidding. I took the sandwich, threw it away and made another one for her.
I’m just wondering now…if clicker training works with kids. I could get a ton of M&Ms and train them with the clicker. With the way my kids like M&Ms…I bet I could get some good results. I bet I could even make millions with a best selling book, Clicker Training for Kids…not just for the dog.
Hmmm….
I may need to try that training with Lucky. He is about 16 weeks old now and needs some good reinforcement.
I’d bet it would totally work with kids. We recently bought one of those backpacks with the leash on it because our 2yo will NOT stay with us and will NOT ride in the stroller. After the first day out with it I told my husband that it’s totally like leash training a puppy.
I thought this was going to be about training husbands! Come up with one for that 😉
I used gummy bears and Hershey’s Kisses when I was potty training my first one. I guess the clicker would have been more like a Pavlov’s Dog kind of trick: I click and she pees. Anyway. Now we use chocolate chips for memorizing French words. Nothing better than food for motivation, for dogs or humans 😉