GOOD BEHAVIOR IS A CLICK AWAY
Clicker training is positive reinforcement and motivation-based training that allows you to communicate with your dogs more effectively. Studies have proven that positive reinforcement offers the most advantages and least harm to your canine learner. Clicker training doesn’t focus on what you don’t want, it focuses on what you do want from your dog, shaping your dream behavior. The tool used to accomplish this, the clicker, is a small handheld device that makes a “click” sound every time you press the button. This strategic tool for animal trainers is quick and easy to use, making it perfect for short bursts of training.
The clicker serves as an event marker with a distinctive sound that communicates to your pet that it is performing the behavior that you want. After marking the behavior, we follow immediately with high value treats that serve as positive reinforcers of the behavior. Clicker training achieves best results with short training sessions of five to ten minutes several times per day. Your pet may even achieve a desired behavior within a few clicks!
HALO Dog Training may accomplish in days behavior that takes months or years to establish by conventional training. We don’t have to keep retraining the behavior and polishing it up, the way you do with correction trained behaviors – we shape behavior. We NEVER use aversive measures such as shock collars, choke chains, or prong collars. Dogs trained with aversive techniques often associate them with the trainer and the training process. These dogs don’t look forward to learning. Their bond with their caregiver is eroded.
Experimentation and initiative are intrinsic by-products of clicker training. Your dog will become more creative. You will too! What clicker trainers see in their dogs is an enthusiasm for learning and performing because all paths lead to reinforcement. When animals stay engaged and learn new things, they live healthier lives. The dogs learn by having fun and so will you! Clicker trainers have learned to recognize play behavior in dogs as a sign that the learner has become consciously aware of what behavior was being reinforced. When the “light bulb” goes on, dogs prance and bark – excited about this newfound discovery. The dogs are happy. They are excited. This event is predictable and replicable.
Scientifically Proven Benefits of Clicker Training:
- Accelerates learning
- Strengthens the human-animal bond
- Produces long-term recall
- Encourages creativity and initiative
- Forgives human mistakes
- Generates enthusiastic learners
- Enables the joy of living with a well-mannered pet
Clicker Trainers Are:
- Focused on what you want
- Results oriented
- Precise
- Consistent
- Excellent observers of behavior
- Generous with reinforcement
With HALO Dog Training, you’ll have a lifelong way of communicating and teaching your dog that everyone in the family can learn. Your dog will understand you. You will understand the dog! Your dog will become a more mature dog, more quickly, because they learn how to make the world work for them instead of just reacting to everything. You can’t harm your dog in this process. In fact, everything you do will strengthen your bond with them. Your dog will learn what you want to teach them, faster. Once they’ve learned it, they’re very likely to remember it.
There will be a buzz, a feeling of excitement in all this shared communication with your dog while “Shaping the Dog of Your Dreams!”