Health and Well-Being Benefits of Clicker Training

Make your dog a healthy, happy, contented dog with clicker training. Hundreds of thousands of trainers and dog owners use clicker training to teach their dogs acceptable behaviors, obedience, and tricks. Through this positive reinforcement method, your dog will enjoy the training experience and will learn to trust you. Here are some of the ways to gain the health and well-being advantages that clicker training can bring:

• Dog owners who use clicker training report that their training helps forge a strong bond with their dogs. Less anxiety means happier dogs and happier owners!


• Good obedience behaviors, developed using clickers, can help protect dogs by teaching them how to act in various situations. For example, teaching a dog to stay on the sidewalk and out of the street can help assure the dog will not stray into traffic or chase vehicles and be harmed.


• Clicker training never involves punishing your dog or hurting his neck with a control collar, so your dog will not associate training and behaviors with fear. That means less physical pain or other harm to the dog while also reducing anxiety.


• Separation anxiety can result in dogs acting out, howling, or destroying property. Advanced clicker training techniques can strengthen the bond of trust and respect so that the dog can look forward to the owner’s return ... and maybe a treat as well!


• When dogs learn tricks, they engage in more coordinated physical exercise. Tricks such as “bowing,” “begging,” or “rolling over” can improve a dog’s flexibility and stamina.


• Good behavior during walks means more walks, more exericse, and more fun for dog and owner both. Clickers can make the training easy and successful.

Dog discipline need not be about hitting and shouting any more. Clicker training helps a dog become a happier, healthier member of the family!