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Post by Chase on Mar 13, 2005 13:18:07 GMT -5
Yesterday, the local petstore was having a sale, so I purchased training discs, because I thought it was like a clicker. THey are metal discs on a string, and they clank when I ued them. They didn't come with instructions, except to say that they were "the best way to train a dog" ha!
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Post by Aussienot on Mar 13, 2005 16:45:16 GMT -5
Training Discs are different from Clickers - the clicker marks rewardable behavior, and the training disc marks bad behaviour. I have only read about them, and I assume from an earlier thread that they are not used much by trainers who post here: dogden.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=Positive&action=display&thread=1104963711&start=The idea of the clicker is that the "Click" marks the exact moment that the dog is doing the right thing. If the click is always followed by praise/reward, then the click becomes reinforcing by virtue of the anticipation of the reward to follow. In purely positive training, any behavior that is not desirable is ''ignored" and failure to respond to a command is matched with No Reward. This is a subtle difference, and the "training discs" are meant to be a more definative No - without actually saying no. The idea is that the dropping of the discs creates a distraction, which allows you to redirect the dog into a more appropriate behavior. I am doubtful about using the discs as a clicker. I don't think you could do it quickly enough, and make them sound exactly the same each time.
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Post by Chase on Mar 14, 2005 10:25:11 GMT -5
aw, too bad. THey seem to like the sound. I think I ought to just use it as a toy.
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Post by Chase on Mar 28, 2005 13:28:49 GMT -5
I bought a clicker a few days ago now! I hope that is going to work.
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