Clicker training question

[Legendsz]

I have a question which I'm confused about. I've been told that you should treat your furbaby randomly when performing the correct trick so they don't depend on the treat. For instance, if you want to do three tricks consecutively and would like to give one treat for it, do you click every time your furbaby performs the trick correctly and on the third click you would treat? or do you wait till your furbaby does all the three tricks and then you give it one click with a treat?

[Mom to Hot Rod]

what I did was click and treat immediately after I got the response I was looking for. Once I was confident that she knew what I wanted, I stretched it out. Meaning I would clck and treat after stringing whatever together and getting the response. I wouldn't push it too quickly otherwise they will get confused. So I guess, yes is the ultimate answer to your question but just a matter of timing.

[TresCutePiggies]

Dogs are making the association between the click and the treat. Meaning they hear the click and know a treat is coming, so click = good. When you first start clicker training, every correct behavior or trick should be clicked and then treated. Gradually, which is what I think you were asking, you will still click for every correct behavior (dog is thinking click = good), and you can just give a treat at the end of the entire string of tricks. You still need to click after each trick even when not treating each trick individually because the click is what is reinforcing the correct behavior. Hope that helps!

For instance, sit, down, rollover, assuming they are all established tricks in a string. I would do sit *click*, down *click*, rollover *click**treat*.