And he does not care!
We had just a few minutes this afternoon as I was wiating for Dr M, and I did not have my clicker yet. He ate out of my hand willingly.
I just got back with the clicker, and contrary to Holly's concerns, he is not scared of it. Not a bit. The first couple of times he heard it, it was for touching my hand with his nose, and he would pull back about 3 inches, but then come in for the food. After a few rounds of that, he did not pull back at all.
I am amazed. I cannot wait til tomorrow to do it some more!
I took a series of pics this afternoon of him as he came to me from his other bucket, but they all came out blurry--too bad, it would have been a neat demonstration of how well this is going.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Mojo met the real clicker
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Well now we have a use for Barry....he can take the pictures.
I am very glad to hear I was wrong about the clickers. I think the training will go even faster now. You understand that you click THEN he gets the grain, right? Do not click and feed at the same time and do not click and forget to feed. Eventually you will click, then go get the treat. Maybe as soon as next week.
Yep. It is pretty close right now, but I wait a second between clicking and letting him have it. I try to click just as soon as he touches me, then I open my hand and let him have the food.
He is so cute braving his way up to touching my hand--kind of bops his head around and ponders it from all angles before finally doing it. He does not mind if I watch him now while it is going on either
Excellent timing! Timing is critical for teaching that HE controls the click...the click must come as soon as he does the behavior.
so CLICK! to you Paige for working so hard with him.
the next step will be to have him target one fist and feed out of the other. When he can do that....you will know he understands clicker training.
Well that will be a trick. I am going to figure this out come hell or high water.
Right now, I hold the scoop in my left hand, and use my right hand for him to touch and eat out of---could I let him eat out of the scoop after touching my right hand, or would that be going backwards?
And I guess I should still wait a couple of days to move forward, like we discussed?
you absolutely can let him eat out of the scoop.
OR
you could have the scoop on the ground behind you, click, get a handful of feed and offer it.
Personally, I'd do the scoop thing because waiting at this early stage might make him too frustrated.
and I wouldn't rush it. Do it at his pace. You are there, you have excellent observations skills so you will know when it feels right to move on and up the ante a little.
I AM SO PROUD OF YOU!!!!!
You sent me prizes! They came today--I can click to my heart's content and not lose them!
Mojo got the day off yesterday but even Barry did some of it with him on Saturday. He did tell me I sound crazy telling people that I am clicker training my horse, so stop telling them. Well to hell with that- this WORKS! Everyone should know
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