Making Friends - Socializing Your Puppy

Introducing your new puppy to new people and other puppies is an important step in the growth of every dog. Watch and listen as Karen Pryor provides helpful tips for introducing your puppy to other puppies, dogs, and humans.

"Clicker training" is the popular term for the training or teaching method based on what we know about how living organisms learn.

Research has shown that any creature—whether a dog, cat, dolphin, parrot, fish, horse, llama, or person—is more likely to learn and repeat actions that result in consequences it desires and enjoys. So clicker trainers provide consequences desired by their animal in exchange for actions or behaviors desired by their trainers.

We call these consequences "rewards" and the process is called "reinforcement." Clicker training, therefore, is a positive-reinforcement-based system of training.

First widely used by dolphin trainers who needed a way to teach behavior without using physical force, operant conditioning (the scientific term for clicker training) can be and has been successfully employed with animals of all sizes and species, both domesticated and wild, young and old; all breeds of dogs and puppies, cats, birds, leopards, rats, rabbits, chinchillas, fish, and more.

Clicker trainers who learn the underlying principles have at their disposal a powerful set of tools that enable them to analyze behaviors, modify existing methods for individual animals, and create new methods where none previously existed. This flexibility allows the tools of clicker training to be re-invented in new forms that work in a range of situations, and for an infinite variety of animals.

The same principles have also been applied to training for athletes, dancers, skaters, and other people. Called "TAGteach," this form of training uses a click as a marker signal to teach precise physical motions quickly, accurately, and positively.

More information can be found at http://www.clickertraining.com

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Pets & Animals

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• clicker
• training
• dog
• puppies
• dogtraining
• puppytraining

[bigjgirl]

what exactly is a clicker 4 and my dog is 6 months old is it to late to socialize him he seems to like strange people and dogs though

[markkpct]

A clicker is a toy noisemaker. Animal trainers make use of the clicker as an event marker to mark a desired response. The sound of the clicker is an excellent marker because it is unique, quick, and consistent. You can find several different types of clickers in our store.

A dog is never too old to learn clicker training. To learn more check out the info for this video on the right and the link to our website.

[HappyPepper]

Gah, informative and adorable... Why can't all programming be like this.

We need a 24 hour puppy channel.

[myroosterwilleatyou]

My puppy had been socialized with chickens, while my friends had NOT. When my friends puppy came over to play, it killed a chicken while my puppy simply watched. What if the chicken was a child? SOCIALIZE UR PUPPY! It's good fun ;D

[dazclean]

Omg your friend must be mortified!

[ScaperSteph]

I must be lucky. Our pup loves to be around other dogs and people. Pretty good for 9 weeks old. He was perfectly well behaved around the other people/dogs when we went to get his shots (The car ride was a rough, though LOL).

[ashmix7177]

me dog hates people and 2weekz ago killed some cat... what can i do...? i love me dog

[jamesrichie54]

my dog hates other dogs yet loves people