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[11/15/2009]
I have had Roo now for a little over three weeks and she is really bonded well with me. She stays right by my side for the most part when we go for walks and her name (cue) has become very reliable as well as her sit cue. I am now starting to work on the leave it cue and stay. I would like to capture downs but the poor girl rarely lies down so that will probably take some work to shape. All in all Roo is turning out to be an exceptional friend. She is great with the other dogs here and reads dogs very well to know when to leave another dog alone which is a great asset in a trainers dog.
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What is Clicker Training? Clicker training is the process of training an animal using a clicker as a marker for behavior that will earn positive reinforcement. The clicker is a small mechanical noisemaker. Clicker training came about when Marian Kruse and Keller Breland, while studying as graduate students of Psychologist B.F. Skinner, taught wild-caught pigeons to bowl while participating in military research, and later was used in training at least 140 species including whales, bears, lions and domestic dogs and cats, and even humans (TAGteach). It is a technology derived from the study of operant conditioning in behavior analysis. Properly applied the clicker is only used during the acquisition phase of training a new behavior. Once the behavior is sufficiently reliable a cue(ex. verbal "SIT","DOWN") is added. At this point the clicker is no longer needed for this behavior(ie stimulus control is attained). A clicker is just one example of a conditioned reinforcer (secondary reinforcer) or "bridge". Technically a stimulus from any sensory mode may becomea conditioned reinforcer (ex. light, smells).
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