I don’t use a clicker. Just my voice, good/thoughtful timing, and a pocket full of mints. No begging allowed. Time to think about the task completed while chewing.
Yes, I started just doing a single cluck and moved away from the actual clicker. The beauty of the clicker is it can hit the very second you see the horse start to move towards the desired behavior. Like I shaped pulling things off the stall.front to playing fetch over time by shaping every incremental movement towards the goal behavior. A verbal cluck does the same. A sentence of praise is too long.
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