How to teach your dog to sit with a clicker

Sawyer and Phoebe sit well for the clicker

Clicker training is fun, easy and relatively cheap. You can buy a clicker at many pet stores for under $5 and use it for all positive reinforcement training. You can teach your dog to sit with a clicker with a few catchy steps.

Difficulty:

Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Dog
• <br>Delectable treats
• <br>Clicker

1. Get your dog’s attention by making sure he knows you have some yummy treats. Also let him sniff the clicker so he knows what it is.

2. Once he’s standing and looking at you, hold the treat above his head, so he has to look up and sit down to reach it.

3. Just as his bottom hits the floor, click the clicker and give him the treat.

4. Repeat 6 times until he’s solid in his response, then phase out the treat so he knows the clicker noise is the "treat" he’s going for.

5. Make the clicker sit exercise a daily practice until it’s fully ingrained.

Tips & Warnings

• Yummy treats for dogs include small chunks of cheese or turkey dogs.

• <br>When trained enough with a clicker, some dogs will go ga-ga at the mere sight of it when you bring it out.

• Never use the clicker as a reprimand. The clicky noise should only be associated with good things.

• <br>Don’t leave the clicker laying around where a curious dog can kidnap it and chew it into a million clicky pieces.