Topic: Shaping with a Clicker

Wanting to improve your shaping skills? Don’t even know what that means, but are curious? Learn how to use reward markers to capture behavior to train dogs.

Have ready:

• Clicker (Ideally you get your clicker and follow the instructions in Foundations: Conditioning your clicker for a week before we have class if you want to work your dog during class) If you do not wish to use a clicker but still want to shape you can also condition a marker word like “yes”)

• Lots of treats -kibble or small pieces of treats you can easily toss and your dog can find easily.

• You don’t have to have all of these options- but have at least one or 2 so you can work the exercises

  • A cardboard box your dog can stand in with at least 2 feet

  • 3 random objects your dog have no association with (like a large kitchen spoon, small tin box, flashlight, tape dispenser, can opener, etc- just random stuff you have that your dog won’t have much natural interest in)

  • A small plastic lid or target

  • An object your dog can hold in their mouth (spoon, wooden dowel, nylabone, tug stick, etc)

Time: Jul 26, 2025 08:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

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