Duncan and I both enjoy clicker training. From my perspective, we're following a carefully designed program (Sue Ailsby's Training Levels) that breaks the desired outcomes into tiny steps so he can succeed easily and by using only positive methods. (Plus it's fun to see his furry little brain working out exactly what I'm "paying" him for!)
From his perspective, it's much simpler: CLICK = TREAT. What's not to love?
So, he wondered, what does he need me for, anyway? All he needs to do is make the clicker go CLICK, and then enjoy the TREAT. What could possibly go wrong?
Oops! It seems that clickers are trickier than they look, when you don't have a thumb to push the button.
Fortunately, this week we will reach the point in our program where we start turning the "Leave It" command (at which he does very well) into a default behaviour.
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