Clicker Training Part 4: Teaching Your Puppy Target Here – Upland Bird Dog Training
good morning cat was Fanning sewn
kennels and we have rogue again and
we’re gonna do another clicker training
session with her except we’re going to
be working on target here this time we
put some emphasis on sitting we’ve put
some emphasis on getting on her dog bed
and kenneling and now we’re gonna ask
her to come to us she’s gotten a little
more independent
outside and so we want to make sure that
she’s not just running off willy-nilly
doing what she wants and that we’re able
to call her back to us so we’re gonna
put some emphasis on target here
which is going to correlate into the
recall when we start collar conditioning
so she’s ready for some rewards she
hasn’t had breakfast yet this morning so
she was trying to figure out how she was
going to get rewarded and she is spunky
so I’m gonna give her focus here and
just ask a few things that we’ve already
done with her rogue sit as you can see
she’s getting treats from her hand for
everything that she’s been doing so our
hands are gonna become really important
hell aren’t you cute so I can drop my
hand and I’m not gonna have a treat in
it I’m not baiting her to me but she
thinks because we’ve done so much with
our hands it’s important as well as
their prey Drive kicks in and they come
over to check out what that movement is
so as soon as she touches my hand she
hears a click and gets a reward rogue so
again I’m not using any specific cues of
here or come if that’s how you will do
recall I’m just getting her attention
with her name and dropping my hand rogue
and as soon as she touches it she’s like
oh there wasn’t a treat their kennel
we’re gonna throw in a couple different
things that she’s been working on
rogue
broke she’s doing a really good job of
coming over and touching my hand as soon
as I’m dropping that rogue
rogue drop that one broke and as you can
see as well in this video she is doing a
lot less jumping up on me which is
something that we have been working on
if she starts jumping up on me though we
will work with that rope kennel rogue
sometimes um in this clicker training
process your puppy can get a little
clingy where they’re like well I want to
just be there so that I can touch your
hand right away because that’s what
we’ve been working on coming to us rogue
so if you can just ignore them for a
little bit and keep walking away from
them that will help another thing that
we can do is have her kennel then we can
call her off of the bed to come touch
our hand this works really well if you
don’t have someone that you could call
her back and forth between but that’s
another option as well
where you would call her to you and then
your partner would call her the other
way so I think we can start introducing
the Q and the Q we use is here so and
she gets a little bit of distance from
me here
here so she’s being a little nippy for
these treats today maybe she’s just a
little more hungry than normal so I’m
not going to let her bite my fingers for
the treat she’s gonna have to take them
nicely because those little puppy teeth
are pretty darn sharp rogue here so she
chomped me pretty good on that last one
so I gave her a little knock on the nose
as a that’s not okay behavior here let’s
see if she’ll take this next one a
little nicer again we can throw in
kennel a couple of the other things that
she knows how to do rope here oh and my
clicker I couldn’t get it clicked very
well so I didn’t mark that perfectly but
that type of thing will happen in
training rogue okay
good sit so as she learns new behaviors
we can mix it up and we can have her
here come when we call nice rogue kennel
kennel on her dog bed and we can also
have her rogue sit sit so I’m gonna have
eaten help me where we can call her back
and forth between us and show you what
you can do with a partner I’ll give him
some of my treats here also his dog food
rogue thinks
great treats but what we’re going to do
is each of us will take a turn calling
rogue to us and we will mark that and
she’ll get a reward from each of us then
one thing to keep in mind is a lot of
times that puppy this puppy especially
is pretty darn smart and she’s going to
try and start anticipating oh I’m just
gonna run back and forth so it’ll be
important to show her that she’s only
going to be getting that reward and
coming in and touching our hand for the
person that’s calling her name rogue
so see see how she tried to just
automatically come back to me because
we’ve been playing this back in fourth
game even for a very short amount of
time
so yeah so we want to make sure she’s
coming to the person that’s calling her
and getting rewarded for that
not just for running back and forth row
row row here
I also didn’t ask her for the here
behavior until I had her attention on
that last one I wanted her to be paying
attention to me and the fact that I was
calling her name before we say here
otherwise she’s not knowing that we’re
talking to her yet and you’re just gonna
say here here here and that word is
gonna mean less so rogue here so as you
can see that process works really well
to work on recalling your puppy back and
forth between you and if you’ve got a
friend or a partner that you can do that
work with it works really great we’ve
got a little bit of kibble left in here
for rogues breakfast so I’m gonna grab a
bowl real quick and I’m going to just
throw this in here as a last-minute
thing that we can work on so she knows
how to sit what she’s doing and she
knows how to count on what she’s doing
she’s trying to do anything right now
that she thinks she can get this jackpot
reward and I’m gonna try and have her
sit for longer so again the clicker not
only marks the behavior but it ends the
behavior so sit sit
sit
ah and I might not be able to get the
bowl to the floor in this first session
sit so I’m gonna mark that we built on
the time that she’s staying and sitting
for longer and longer my goal is to
eventually be able to get that bowl to
the floor so she’s not jumping at the
bowl of food when you’re trying to feed
her and knocking it flying and we’re
just going to continue holding that
click holding that mark and reward for
longer and longer until we can get to
the point where we can set that bowl of
food on the ground and then she can get
her award so that’s it for rogues recall
clicker training session for this
morning let us know if you have any
questions but we’ll be back soon with
more new videos on what we’re working on
with rogue
