I have a 7 month old Belgian Malinois and I want to teach him some simple tricks. I don’t intend to make him a protection dog. I know it’s quite costly. I was able to teach him some obedience training like sit, stay, fetch etc. and I’m using the reward method and I find it ok. I’m just curious. Is clicker training better?
clicker + reward training is what our trainer recommends. personally i find the clicker annoying but it seems to work well. we only use it to teach something new and than its only reward and than nothing. before our obedience training we used just rewards and that worked pretty well 2, but i think clicker gets her attention faster and the response is faster so she stays focused better.
just to clarify what clicker training that we used is
it goes like this
1) you give command
2) dog performs
3) you click right away
4) and give a treat right away.
so click and treat in almost one move. clicker sound is unique and they associate that with something good (as a praise followed by a treat). you than slowly fade it out.
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