Carol

1. Clicker Training
Making it Real

2. Clicker Training
Making it Real

3. Why Train Rescue Dogs?

4. Why Train Rescue Dogs?
 A trained rescue dog is more likely to find a home

5. Why Train Rescue Dogs?
 A trained rescue dog is more likely to find a home
 A trained rescue dog can be marketed as more desirable
than a puppy

6. Why Train Rescue Dogs?
 A trained rescue dog is more likely to find a home
 A trained rescue dog can be marketed as more desirable
than a puppy
 Training a dog improves his mental health and his quality
of life

7. Why Train Rescue Dogs?
 A trained rescue dog is more likely to find a home
 A trained rescue dog can be marketed as more desirable
than a puppy
 Training a dog improves his mental health and his quality
of life
 Training a dog using reward-based methods can make him
safer, happier and more handle-able

8. What is
Clicker Training?

9. Clicker training is a way to
communicate to the dog that
something he did is going to get
him something he wants – and so
is something worth repeating.

10. What is so good about Clicker Training?

11. What is so good about Clicker Training?
 Accuracy

12. What is so good about Clicker Training?
 Accuracy
 Enthusiastic Learning

13. What is so good about Clicker Training?
 Accuracy
 Enthusiastic Learning
 Working it out

14. What is so good about Clicker Training?
 Accuracy
 Enthusiastic Learning
 Working it out
 Click – not Words

15. What is so good about Clicker Training?
 Accuracy
 Enthusiastic Learning
 Working it out
 Click – not Words
 Luring and Shaping

16. How to Clicker Train

17. How to Clicker Train
 Lure or shape the behaviour

18. How to Clicker Train
 Lure or shape the behaviour
 Wait for the behaviour to be offered

19. How to Clicker Train
 Lure or shape the behaviour
 Wait for the behaviour to be offered
 Name the behaviour

20. How to Clicker Train
 Lure or shape the behaviour
 Wait for the behaviour to be offered
 Name the behaviour
 Practise it everywhere

21. How to Clicker Train
 Lure or shape the behaviour
 Wait for the behaviour to be offered
 Name the behaviour
 Practise it everywhere
 Reduce the rewards

22. Making it Real

23. Rules of Clicker Training

24. Rules of Clicker Training
 If you click, you must treat

25. Rules of Clicker Training
 If you click, you must treat
 No pushing or pulling

26. Rules of Clicker Training
 If you click, you must treat
 No pushing or pulling
 No punishment – just no reward

27. Rules of Clicker Training
 If you click, you must treat
 No pushing or pulling
 No punishment – just no reward
 The clicker is a marker only – not a
remote control

28. Rules of Clicker Training
 If you click, you must treat
 No pushing or pulling
 No punishment – just no reward
 The clicker is a marker only – not a
remote control
 Stay safe – and have fun!

29. Dogs Trust
You and Your Puppy
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