Imagine that you are taking a class with your dog. Some of the participants are very experienced, others have some...
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.
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...
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...
Your whistle seems great – can I have it?
I've received that question a couple of times when my dogs have sat down really promptly at the stop whistle or...
Choose your cues with care – and teach them even more carefully!
Just as it doesn't matter which whistle you choose it doesn't matter which other cues you choose to use with your dog....
I thought we would use the clicker more #ThrowBackThursday
Something we talk a lot about is that the clicker isn't the most important thing in the clicker training philosophy...
What are you training for?
I often hear people saying "well, that's a mark, you shouldn't cast your dog". We had a discussion about it as late as...
When sports collide
Sometimes I get the question if I am not worried that my different dog sports are going to collide with each other. Am...
Self-control – how much does it cost?
A few years ago, Jenny Nyberg, a neuroscientist at the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at the University of...
Creative distraction training
Simply put, we can say that we make our training more difficult in three ways: By increasing distance or duration and...
The you can’t play tug with a gun dog myth #ThrowBackThursday
Not tugging with your gun dog is one of the hardest myths to kill. In the blog post below you can see how we do it -...
Operant learning vs clicker training vs ”traditional” training
Every now and then, I come across the misconception that classical conditioning is the same as ”traditional” training,...
Keep an open mind!
Imagine 640 people who loves dogs and dog training at the same place for three days – and nights. Add a bundle of...
The you can’t play tug with a gun dog myth
The most common misunderstanding we discuss with our students the first time we meet them is the idea that you can't...
“I Thought We Would Use the Clicker More”
“The clicker philosophy – without the clicker" Sometimes the students who come to our retrieving classes say to us...
Field Trials for Spaniels
We get quite a few qeustions about field trials; how the different types of trials work, how to get certificates and...
Field Trials for Retrievers
We get quite a few questions about field trials; how the different types of trials work, how to get certificates and...
Glossary
Within both the gun dog society and clicker training there are a lot of special terms that can be difficult to...