Transcripts For “Hands Off Dog Training” Intro To Special Dog Training Techniques Hello and welcome to all you dog lovers out there. My name is Chet Womach and I am Dave Womach and we are the owners of playfulpupus.com and today we are going to be talking to you about how to use the phenomenal training tool, which is a clicker to totally transform yours’ dogs’ behaviors. We found through our web site birdtricks.com and throughout our training with parrots and I guess that is kind of where our background came from and throughout the course of about six months of producing these tapes we found out that the most powerful tool in any animal training is a clicker, much stronger than any other device out in the market and it has got one of the most simple, effective, and most inexpensive ways to train any animal. Exactly like Dave said there are so many things we have done. We have our background came originally in parrot training where we developed all sorts of training materials with mostly using clickers to totally shaped behaviors in birds and we just want to let you know that these principles will work in birds, they work on cats, they work on dolphins, they work on whatever. They are the basic principles that animal trainers all over the world use and that’s why we want to come out each day taking those clicker training principles, which have a whole lot of benefits that we’ll get into but specifically applying them towards your dog. The greatest thing about clicker training and the most unique aspect that it has over any other form is that its focusing on all the benefits and all the positive sides of training, your strictly rewarding behaviors that are good. You don’t reward any behaviors that are bad. You don’t punish any wrong behaviors. It’s strictly positive reinforcement throughout the training. And when my brother mentions that what he is talking about is this course won’t teach any methods involving choke collars, they won’t talk about jerking on a leash. I have seen courses out there where if you are doing leash control only, it’s off the leash control. So your dog will heal while your walking while he’s not on a leash. They train their dogs. They stay by your side by actually throwing circle chains at the dogs, but to get him to stay there because if he leaves he gets hit with these chains and essentially gets whipped with chains and obviously that has a lot of negative drawbacks, negative feedback that your dog is going to perceive that is coming from you and then resenting you and also this is not fun for the dog and not only that your neighbors will probably turn you in. very, very true. The first thing that I want to attack here and show you is that our training kit is going to be designed a little way that you might not be used to and it might sound a little bit funny. This first section we are going to introduce clicker training to you and it will flow pretty well, will give you some background, will show you some of the benefits, will talk to you about how to get started, how to get setup, all those such things and this first portion will flow quite smoothly. However, we designed the last portion, because there will be a few good hours of audio here to listen to very differently. It won’t be designed to listen to from beginning to end. It would be very segmented and that was done for a purpose. We created it that way so it could be well index. So if your dogs’ only problem is he pees on the carpet and you really don’t care about barking and you don’t care about biting and you don’t care about leash control or whatever you can specifically reference whatever chapter the party training is in and you don’t have to wade through one and half hour of audio to find what you are specifically looking for. So just beware of that when you are going through this kit and it gets a little bit choppy in the sections where we spend specific chapters on the CDs and breakdown the specific behaviors and how to correct them. Shaping And Molding Behaviors By Using Clicker Training Clicker training has a lot of other benefits that you may not be aware of and I think it’s extremely important to point out to you. We first sort to stumble across this with parrot training and you may or may not own a parrot but the benefits are the same. We notice that even though we didn’t have this in mind at the beginning when we were trick trained the birds and learnt to teach them what behaviors were rewarding, what clickers we started training them a whole host of behaviors, the bond that was created was significantly increased between ourselves and the parrots and the same holds true for dogs. Not only that but on top of all everything that Chet’s saying our birds responded much, much, much faster the sound of a clicker. Instead of saying “good” or something else to kind of bridge the gap between the animal does a behavior you want and when you actually give it a reward the clicker hits an exact moment that the animal does desired behavior. Now that may not sound important but if you put in perspective if you want the dog to walk over and sit on to a map, which we will get into later you want the dog to first at least just look at the map. You can’t get that with saying a verbal bridge. The dog looks at the map, you click it you get a reward. It takes a step towards the map, you give it a click and rewarded and in pinpointing every single move that the dog makes until you eventually shape and mold the exact behavior that you are looking for. What he is talking about works in everything. It even works believe it or not with training goldfish. They are known to be trained on a clicker and you can just very, very specifically reward exactly tiny, tiny small increments towards the dog’s good behavior and that’s some of the benefits that come in to play versus correcting the dog in a bad portion and he doesn’t really know what he is doing, right. So he feels confined in a worse relationship. To kind of explain how this works and get you a better feel of exactly why this works. I want to give a little bit of background into where, I don’t know if it will be a clicker training that got started but operate conditioning got started and I wanted to tell you a story and this is probably going to be in some other materials of ours that you are listening to or reading but talking about Dr. Skinner and I believe its in the 1920s, Dr. Skinner was a scientist that did a lot of studies on rats and I will tell this story real brief and short, but essentially what he did is he would take a hungry rat and he put it in a cage and his goal was to see if he could train this rat, which is a laboratory rat to run over to a food dispenser that had a little lever on it, raise its paw, put his paw on the dispenser, push down on the paw, which would activate the dispenser and drop the food palate into the rat’s cage. He will run over there , munch on it and eat it. So that every time the rat got hungry he knew that he could just walk over, stump on that paddle and he would get a palate. Now that seems very complex and it’s got a long way to go but Dr. Skinner proved that this was possible and what he did like my brother mentioned just a little while ago was he broke it down into tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny steps. We are going to teach you throughout this course how to do that on all sorts of behavioral problems with your dog to all sorts of tricks to all sorts of games you can play and what he did at first is he imagined there is a rat in the cage and there’s nothing else in this cage except this food dispenser and the rat just kind of wondered around sniffing different things and he waited until the rat knows just sort of accidentally, by happen chance looked at the feeder, just looked at it and immediately he hit a little remote button that he had on his feeder and it dropped and went “click”, what we mean by that when he hit that remote the pellet dropped and it made a click at the bottom of this cage and that click pricked up the rat’s ears. He saw the food palate, he ran over and he ate it and that was certainly the beginning of where all this clicker training staff came from and too small, small steps that didn’t take too long for every time the rat looked at the feeder he got a food pellet being clicked in the bottom of his cage that he realized gosh all I have to do is look at this food dispenser when I am hungry and I get a pellet and pretty soon the rat was constantly staring at the food dispenser and then what happened is Dr.