JE-UK

Just a question for anyone doing shaping with a clicker ... how often do you start out shaping one thing (or thinking you are shaping one thing) and end up going in a totally different direction because of some weird or cute behaviour your dog throws?

I very often start out thinking I will shape Behaviour X, then Vasco tries a bunch of stuff and I end up going for Behaviour Y instead. I think either he's very inventive or I have a short attention span ...

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fjm

Nearly always - don't know whether it is short attention span, or a propensity to go with the flow ... !

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liljaker

I am just starting Sunny on clicker training; especially since he has had no obedience, per se, and is almost 4 -- guess they don't want him SITTING in the ring, etc. and well, even tho she didn't show him for the last year and half, he was not obedience trained, which NOW I realize is why he never really sat much for me at all until I taught him the command and he didn't really understand HOW to sit. I taught him Sit with clicker and now don't need the clicker. He comes over and Sits and looks up at me like, "is this good"?. It is adorable. This was at the beach.

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liljaker

Didn't mean to Sunny Hijack your thread; but yes, he is a quick Click Study and we have gone to do other things. It is fun and he is aching to learn.

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MrsKaia

I tried teaching him paw cross for a long time. Just for fun, and to keep his mind busy. Apparently he thinks paw cross is boring, 'cause after 4 or 5 tries he gets so excited he starts to roll on his back, pawing at me ... I gave up ...

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CharismaticMillie

Well, I have been doing a bit more of capturing I think with Mils, but I was trying to capture her bow/stretch that she does all.the.time. Anyway, she definitely understood that I was clicking whenever she got "low" with her body, but she took it to the point of doing a very nice bow-down (as opposed to the sit-down that she usually does). Well, this isn't exactly what I was trying to teach, BUT, I remember back when we were trying to do formal obedience I was frustrated because she always did a slower down from a sit rather than a bow/down. So, I went with the flow.

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