Clicker Training:

Here's how you might do a short dog clicker training session (and short sessions work best for the dogs' learning):

You have a clicker in your hand, and some small treats in a pocket or nearby. You have chosen what you are going to train for this session... let's say it's "sit."

Your dog wanders over to see why something smells so good. He happens to lift his head up, and you click the clicker and give him a treat.

Now you've got his attention. Let's say he happens to sit. You immediately click and give him a large "jackpot" treat because he's done exactly what you want -- even though he didn't know you wanted it.

After some more rewards when he happens to do something that is either the behavior you want or part of it, he gets the idea that yummy treats come when he does certain things. He may offer you a variety of behaviors. Just reward the ones that you want.

If he doesn't sit because he is too excited by the treats, you could hold a treat over his head, so far back that he would sit (or even make a motion toward sitting) and then you could click that.

Once he definitely has the idea that sitting brings a treat (which might be more than one session), you can begin to use the word "sit" -- timing it so you say it just before you think he is about to sit. He still does the sitting because in his mind, sitting and treats are connected, but after he has heard the word 'sit" in that context enough times, he'll get the idea.

Positive Dog Training:

Positive dog training is using methods that enhance our relationships with dogs.

Maybe it's helpful to say what it is NOT. It is not using training methods that hurt or terrify the dogs.

Is it possible to train every dog using solely positive methods? I don't know. Maybe not. But it is possible to do far, far more positive dog training than people are doing so far.

In the last few years, many trainers have crossed over to using clicker training and similar positive dog training methods rather than the forceful approaches. You may hear them called crossover trainers for that reason.

Positive Dog Training Tricks:

1. All living things repeat behaviors that are rewarding and avoid behaviors that are not.

2. Your dog already knows everything you are going to teach him.

3. Dogs can only learn one behavior for any particular cue. (For example, they don't understand that a word can have several meanings.)

4. Think in terms of what you want your dog to do, not what you want him not to do.

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