Building Attention: Game 1 Clicker dog training

This video goes over one game of how to train your dog to pay attention to you in distracting environments.
If you find that your dog is not interested in the game, try the game with higher level reinforcement- better treats (or toys), move to a less distracting environment, more to an area where you can run more (yet is safe)- as you could see in my video my yard was almost too small to play this game as its really moving fast and away that encourages a dog to run to you.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• dog
• training
• clicker
• puppy
• obedience
• manners
• attention
• focus
• distractions
• distracted
• how
• to
• stop

[Pandaraze]

This looks great! I really hope this works on my 8 week old Finnish Lapphound/Karelian beardog mix :)

[kikopup]

@Pandaraze Good luck !

[GypsyEyes09]

This looks great but i have actually had to do the opposite. I have a border collie pup that is 8 months old now and she loves to chase everything that runs. I have taught her to ignore running people by rewarding her for not chasing me when i run. She is still tempted sometimes though. There was a great example today when someone took off running right next to her. She turned to chase but immediately corrected herself and went back to look for her hidden tennisball.

[kikopup]

@GypsyEyes09 I agree! If you watch my leash biting video and my no biting video- you will see that I also proof for the dog being calm while distractions occur- shuffling feet past jsut means stay calm and doing what you are doing- or kids running by, or cars etc.

[kikopup]

@GoldenBrandon131997 Yes. the point is for the puppy to want to be with you in any environment- so if you run off the puppy runs with you, rather than runs off to chase squirrels.  It also teaches a puppy if they do run after you- not to bite or jump when they get to you but run along side you (great for the Fast exercise in Rally obedience). and great for not knocking down and biting running kids.

[kikopup]

@mollybrandybillly Yes :) But you would have to use management- obviously dont go to a field thats not fenced in at first. Start with no distraction then build to other places. its just conditioning- getting the dog to find you more reinforcing in other environments. So it can only make things better. The great thing is you are not saying "come", so if the dog doesn't run to you, you can just think to yourself "whateva..." (and think up other ways to make yourself more interesting)

[awad212]

I love watching your videos.

-Full of important information

-Straight to the point

-Short.

keep'em coming...............

[testorki]

A nice game. I played it with my dog, my cats and even my parrots and it worked exceptionally well :-) I will ask my dog dancing trainer if we can do it as a warm-up to learn the dogs not to run off to other trainers all the time. Thanks for making the video.

[orchidea1130]

I have a 6 week old Border Collie, but he doesn't even want food from my hand, he isn't interested in any toys I bought him. Is he too small for training? Or should I wait a few days until he gets used to the place?? Yesterday, when we got him he bit everything and I started to train him with clicker training, not to bite, but because he didn't want food from my hand "I" was frustrated. So I just friendly interrupted him, and now he stoped it. But I WANT to use clicker training. What to do?

[somebody662]

do u have that tutorial on invisable wall up yet?

[tulsisevadasi]

What a pretty puppy. This video just shows how quickly you can build up a bond with your dog. His second day with you. Wow.

[haveyouseenmykeys]

Hi Kikopup:) Thank you so much for all your videos, they are so valuable, useful and so well explained. After watching your videos, I am wondering, in what order we should I train my new puppy? For example, 1. Attention 2. There name 3. Sit ... Etc. Thank you again.

[xXserkXx]

you have so many videos i dont even know where to start from.. :P