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FORUM THE LOUNGE Anyone ever done clicker training?

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    • TaraMichele
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         I bought the e-book for clicker training and am kind of excited to get started, Im just curious if anyone has any luck with it? and if anyone has any advice.. The book doesnt mention what to do when you have 2 bunnies so Im curious how to work that….Im kind of excited for it 


      • Elrohwen
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          I’ve had some success with Otto – he knows a couple tricks and really loves his time with the clicker. I’ve never been able to do it with two though – every time I get one alone, the other one hears what we’re doing and runs over. I’ll have to physically separate them to do it, which I can’t do until I have a door between their room and the living room.


        • Malp_15
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            I’m just starting at it. It has been good so far, much slower than when I clicker trained my dogs but oh well. So far we have just worked on his name and that is going pretty well. He definately knows the clicker though, he binkies whenever he sees it haha


          • Kate Monster
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              Well ideally you should seperate them when you do clicker training and work with just one at a time. But my two refuse to be seperated, especially Kate. Whenever I take Spence away for toe nail trims, she sits in the living room and thumps, which of course makes him nervous. And when I take Kate away she freaks out and tries to climb up me to sit on my head, which makes me concerned for the safety of my eye balls, so… that doesn’t work for me. But I did manage to teach them ‘come’ and ‘up’ (periscope) on command pretty well working with both of them. I clicked with my toe so I could use both hands to treat. Probably this works for me because they are both extremely food motivated so they learned at about the same rate. Doing it that way, you probably are limited to somewhat simpler things and those that don’t involve using your hands for anything for treating. When I started, others suggested using two different sounds, one for each bunny, but mine have such a tendency to follow each other around that I’d probably just train them both to recognize two different sounds. I hope some of those thoughts and suggestions are helpful! Good luck, it is fun. Once we started doing this, the instant I would sit down where we did the training or I grabbed the clicker they would run up to me and starting periscoping over and over, it was really cute. Moving put us off the routine a little, but I hope to get back into it soon.


            • TaraMichele
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                 Ive started working on it and its seems to be going well… cady is already responding to certain commands and sophie is following behind, it seems as though hes caught on to UP and Cady HERE, and they both definitely seem to be enjoying it.  I cut back on some of their morning pellets and have been using them as treats.  and ater we finish up I get tons of binkys 


              • MissPinUp
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                  Lucy loved it. Although, she’s got an attitude now so she only does things when she wants to. The thing of it is, I KNOW she knows the tricks! Because when she feels like it, if I say dance, she runs around in a circle with no direction. She’s not dumb, just very snotty lol. She does “sing” for bananas though, because that’s the only way she gets them

                  (not whole bananas of course, just pieces)


                • Elrohwen
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                    I want to hear how Lucy sings! Does she make noise? Or just make a singing action?


                  • LoveChaCha
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                      I keep forgetting a buy a clicker >_<

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