Clicker Training a Bird Dog Retrieve Part 2 Finishing Touches - Video

Part 2 addresses adding finishing behaviors such as hold duration, stays, call offs, faster returns, adding a helper, shaping close hand deliveries, side delivery, retraining in the field, generalizing the behavior plus other criteria to train for. Includes how to to the Premack Principle (tugging only works if your dog likes it more than the retrieve-but you can use other activities that are more fun for your dog) , Classical
Conditioning and Alexandra Kurland's Peck 300 method.

Clicker Training a Bird Dog Retrieve Part 1 Shaping and Chaining The Basic Retrieve - Video

Basics of Clicker Training your Bird Dog

Watch Step by Step Instructions over and over on how to shape, then back chain together all the behaviors needed to have a solid retrieve to hand for bird dogs and gun dogs. All positive. 

Tips for training given as you work through the process. Practice each step until your dog can do it correctly 8 out of 10 times in a row. When you add the next criteria, your dog should be successful 50% of the time. If she's not, you need to simplify something for her so she can be.

You can use tugging to increase desire for the bumper between sessions if you use a different toy, not the bumper. 

This method works for natural retrieving breeds as well as non-natural retrievers such as Jessie. It allows you to retrain any part of the retrieve chain that your dog is not proficient with.

Dog Training - Vibrate condition to "whoa" - Video

In this training video Chad works with Hank a young German Shorthair. He shows how to use DT's 1820 vibrate feature to vibrate condition a young puppy to the "whoa" behavior. He uses positive reinforcement pigeons to help accomplish this.

    

Dog Training - Vibrate condition to a place board - Video

In this video we use the DT 1820's vibrate feature to vibrate condition this young puppy Hank to a place board. This process like all our training starts using all positive reinforcement and clickers.

    

Using pigeons as positive reinforcement - introducing the &"Whoa" command - Video

Using pigeons as positive reinforcement we start training Rooster to be steady to wing. We have found this method of training is easy on young dogs, and makes introducing the "Whoa" command fun for the dog.

Clicker Training With Your New Puppy - Video

The basics of Clicker training a puppy.