The document discusses clicker training dogs. It explains that clicker training communicates to dogs that certain behaviors will result in rewards, encouraging those behaviors. Key benefits of clicker training are its accuracy, the dogs' enthusiastic learning, its use of shaping behaviors, and that it uses a click sound rather than words to mark desired behaviors. The document provides instructions for clicker training, including luring behaviors, clicking and rewarding when behaviors occur, naming behaviors, and practicing in various locations while gradually reducing treats. It outlines rules for clicker training, such as always rewarding after a click and avoiding punishment or force.

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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