Hi all, thanks again for so many kind words and nuggets of wisdom. Our trainer came to call on Thursday and got us clicking, and our dog is getting the hang of it. We had a bark free day yesterday!! We went to our local dog park with a friend and her dog, who's friendly and calm with ours and vice versa. I think she's a good influence on him. They played, saw and examined other dogs, and behaved beautifully. On our trainer's advice we're using our dog's daily food allowance as part of training and fun and he's loving using his Kong toy more to get the food out of it. We're also using T Touch and lead desensitisation, as well as a few other things to get him used to being left in the house (which is an issue, he still gets quite worked up) and I'm feeling a LOT more confident about everything now.
Love the advice on using sticky licky stuff to occupy our dog! I bought a tube of squeezy cheese, and am using this for 'target stick' work with the clicker using the end of a wooden spoon. He thinks it's great, so this cheese is a useful tool to pop in my pocket when we're walking too.
A great start with our clicker training, may it continue
