Free Shaping Dog Training

Free shaping is a type of animal training where you teach the behaviours in gradual steps using a marker like a clicker and rewards.

Free shaping dog training. Anything they do leads to something they want. Shaping is a powerful technique because you can use it to train your canine friend complex behaviors. Shaping can be a great way to teach some difficult behaviours expand your animal s capabilities exercise your animal s brain and build your chops as a trainer. Training in big chunks is frustrating for the learner.

First your dog needs to know what a clicker or marker word means. Free shaping has has some important benefits. Shaping is a method of training a dog to do something by waiting for him to offer a behavior and quickly rewarding it. Good shaping by successive approximations feels pretty easy because the dog is getting it right so often.

In fact you might have to start at a very basic level. It is also a higher level training system because the end result is a complex dog command. An advanced dog training method shaping dog behavior is a training technique that builds on capturing. Luckily this becomes easier with a clicker.

More than likely it needs to be built upon in small increments. In this way you can break up a potentially complicated action into smaller parts that your dog will learn and understand more quickly. It is an advanced method because it requires the trainer to pay attention to the dog s movements and have excellent timing when rewarding him. Free shaping where any and all movement gets rewarded is my go to way to build confidence in super shy dogs.

Timing and consistency are critical in any type of training but when using free shaping the trainer s timing needs to be impeccable since the full extent of the desired behavior probably won t happen right away. Gives shy dogs courage. It s great for dogs who have little confidence and are hesitant or shut down because they can t lose.