Clicker Training

Clicker training is best described as the way an animal learns from its immediate environment. Animals tend to learn from repetition that has positive consequences rather than negative ones. Under the influence of operant conditioning, a dog learns that by behaving in a certain way or by performing a certain exercise, it can make something positive happen or avoid something negative.

While operant conditioning has been around for a very long time, it wasn’t until about fifteen years ago that it was brought into the field of dog training. Since then, it has grown with respect to the number of trainers that now use clicker training as a basis for all of their animal training.

Now we get to the question “Why clicker training?” With operant conditioning you can raise the happiest, most loving pet you have ever owned! This is simply because there isn’t any real punishment involved with the process of clicker training and your dog won’t look at you as an object of negativity!

With operant conditioning there never has to be a real punishment involved. You never have to yell at your dog, there is no physical punishment at all (there should never be with any type of training) and you never have to get frustrated with the training because it is done gradually, step-by-step until your dog understands.