MericoX, Paris is already very adept at figuring out shaping behaviours, the context is me sitting in a chair with clicker & treats, which is essentially her cue to start throwing behaviours at me. So when I put the bucket down she
immediately went to look at it, which got clicked. She tried hitting it a couple of times with her front feet but with that being ignore she went back to sniffing it, which got clicked. Every time she got clicker she'd pop her head back up for her treat, and drop her head back down to look; just like in the first bit of the movie. I just kept up a really rapid-fire series of click & treat for her trying to sniff at the bucket. She was pretty sure there might be something inside the bucket so she was quite happy to stick her head inside it just to check, and that got a jackpot (treat, treat, treat, treat. Rapid fire one after the other with no clicks in between). Paris is smart, she literally took about 30 seconds before she was sticking her head inside the bucket happily.
For when I'm TRAINING something, I use the clicker and treats a LOT. It really is such a fast accurate way to train things! Once it's *trained* I use various other rewards (a simple "YES!!" [instead of the click, as I certainly don't have my clicker on me at all times!] and play, a tug game, chasing a ball, bouncing on the spot, whatever makes her go 'YAY!') Paris LOOOOOVES to bounce and be silly, she also adores to run, so they in themselves are rewards for being good too!
I use food to train things initially as they are faster and easier to use is all.
