Clicking
With Canines
Foundation
Class Behaviors
1.
Behavior: Name
Game
Levels:
1.
Check In
2.
Respond to Name
3.
Respond to Name Despite Distractions
4.
Increase Duration of Eye Contact
2.
Behavior: Settle
Levels:
1.
Shape “Lying on a Mat” Behavior
2.
Add a Cue
3.
Introduce Distractions and Increase Duration
4.
Shape a Settle Within a Boundary
3. Behavior: Down
Levels:
1.
Follow a Target to Down Position
2.
Add a Cue
3.
Build Duration
4.
Response from a Distance
4. Behavior: Mine/Take It
Levels:
1.
Ignore Food
2.
Ignore Food on the Floor
3.
Ignore Food and Other Objects
5.
Behavior: Sit
Levels:
1.
Shape a Sit by Using a Target
2.
Fade the Target and Introduce Hand-Signal Cue
3.
Greet with a Sit
6. Behavior: Capturing & Shaping Games
Levels:
1.
Head Dip
2.
Capture a Paw Lift
3.
Build a Captured Behavior into a New Behavior
4.
Cup or Box Game
7.
Behavior: Polite
Walking
Levels:
1.
Connect the Dots
2.
Connect the Dots, with Mild Distractions
3.
Distractions Along the Path
4.
Increasing Duration and Distractions
8. Behavior: Recall
Levels:
1.
Introduce Recall Using Hand Targeting
2.
Introduce Mild Distractions
3.
Increase Distance
4.
Fluency at a Distance and with Distractions
9. Behavior: Wait/Let’s Go
Levels:
1.
Introduce Waiting at a Boundary
2.
Introduce Distractions to the Wait
3.
Introduction of Real-Life Distractions
10.
Behavior: Targeting
Levels:
1.
Touch Nose to Target
2.
Follow a Target
3.
Teach a New Behavior
4.
Touch Paw to Target
