Less Pulling, Better Walks :)

I recently started doing clicker-training with Loki. I'm not sure if it's any better, but decided to try it and I think he's responding pretty well to it, he's learnt to limp and picked up on it pretty quickly . Anyway, took him for a walk a couple of hours ago and the first minute or so, he was pulling, but after that he didn't pull at all. I'd click whenever he was walking with the lead loose, and would give him a treat. Don't know if that's right or not, but he certainly decided to stop pulling and to walk closer to me, even after I ran out of treats. It was a great walk, we even spotted a bone and I got him to leave it which, if you know Loki, you all know how big a deal that is

He's learning so fast Tara, won't be long before your saying "i remember when Loki used to ........."

I've always been interested in clicker training. I've never tried it but that sounds promising Tara! I might try it for a few of Logan's naughty habits.

Well done Loki

Chance the worlds dimist dog completely ignores clickers, treats, toys.....

ella wrote:

Chance the worlds dimist dog :

Close your ears big lump!


Well done loki

he wouldn't know we are talking about him anyway

Bless him

ella wrote:Well done Loki

Chance the worlds dimist dog completely ignores clickers, treats, toys.....

What's his reward for when you're training him, then? Love?

Well done Loki

Just done some stuff on clicker training , but we've not really tried it ourselves yet but watched the trainer in action with behaviour shaping just to make her dog touch the top of a cone and it's great to see it work, the key apparently though is to make sure the treat follows the click, and before the next click

Tara wrote:

ella wrote:Well done Loki

Chance the worlds dimist dog completely ignores clickers, treats, toys.....

What's his reward for when you're training him, then? Love?

Basically....

The only thing to motivate him is me, but this is why he has no recall he will not work for anything. You can literally put treats in his mouth and he will keep it open and push them out with his tongue

Monte could learn quite a bit from Loki. He may even be dimmer than Chance Ella... not a smart lad. All looks and no brain.

I trained my girl very successfully to sit, lay down, stay and come to me using a clicker and treats, but I have never tried it to get her to stop pulling. It sounds to me like you're doing it right. Rewarding the good behaviour. Thanks for the inspiration. I am going to give clicker training and walking a go.