Part 2 of Clicker Training
To refresh your memory, or start at part 1, head on over to Clicker Training
Capturing takes patience and sometimes can take a long time. Ryker will
scratch himself on cue. Raygen will sneeze on cue. Rylie will kick her rear
legs on cue. Ryddick will bow on cue. All behaviors that I have are captured.
The dog does the behavior on its own and you c/t. If you don't have a clicker
handy use a marker word and treat. I pretty much don't use the clicker to long
and add a verbal cue very early on.
Shaping is for dogs and handlers
that are a bit more clicker savvy. It is also called the Thorndike
Method. Wait for a behavior to happen, reward the behavior, add a cue while the
behavior is happening.
Start by making a plan (in your head). Visualize
how the end behavior looks like and break it down into many smaller steps. For
example... End behavior is a nose touch to your hand... present the hand near
the dogs nose and even the tiniest movement (ear, nose, eyes, muscle) gets a
click and a treat (c/t). Sooner or later the dog will figure out that you want
his nose to touch the hand.
Some trainers have been rushing Shaping and the
steps in training are to big. Kay Laurence,
master clicker trainer, started to give it a new name.... micro-shaping. That
way nobody can say they didn't understand how small the steps were supposed to
be.
Here is a video Astrid has done with her dog Ryker, using shaping to get him to hold a dumbbell.
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