Recently I have been working with many dogs during various seminars and classes.
It pushed me to write a post about one technical aspect of dog training I think, a lot of people have problems with. MARKERS.
What is a MARKER?
First of all it is a form of communication with our dogs, marking the specific moment in training, in certain behavior and it also brings the information about the delivery pattern of the reinforcement.
Properly established and used (clear, consistent) will be a positive and precise information about the certain moment of behavior, completed behavior, chain of behaviors. Marker is not a praise and should not be used as such. Making a shortcut we can say that MARKER is a confirmation of a well performed behavior.