Theory

Clicker training can sometimes become a bit theoretical and seem much harder than it is. We always encourage our students to plan, try and then evaluate the training and in the practical work we incorporate the theory. The theoretical foundation is often very important for the understanding of clicker training. Here you’ll find our blog posts on the theory behind the clicker philosophy where we in an accessible way explain how we train our dogs and the mumbo-jumbo words that clicker trainers sometimes use.

We are clicker trainers

We started our publishing company Klickerförlaget eight years ago because we wanted to publish our own book "Retrieving for All Occacsions" in Swedish - but rather quickly the publishing house developed into something more. We want to spread knowledge about positive...

“Time to prove yourself!”

Imagine that you are taking a class with your dog. Some of the participants are very experienced, others have some experience, someone is completely new to the whole thing, have just begun this training and are new owners of a retrieving breed. Some know each other...

Just laugh it off

One of the most important building blocks in our training philosophy is that we are looking for the good stuff that the dog does so that we can reward that. There's something a little magical about that, because it rubs off on everything. Suddenly you notice that...

Oh my God, I’ve become a “lumper”

“Be a splitter not a lumper”. A pithy saying by Bob Bailey , so established in the world we might call the "clicker world" that we can say to one another "Oh my, I think I have become a lumper!" or "I don't want to lump behavior that way". And everyone will know what...