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Using the Clicker for Two Dogs

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From Eileen Laber: I have read Don't Shoot the Dog and Morgan Spector's book Clicker Training for Obedience. I am unsure about using the clicker for two dogs. When one dog is offering a behavior and the other is doing nothing, and I click and treat the dog offering the behavior, am I diluting the effect of the click for the dog that is doing nothing. Sometimes the dog doing nothing comes to me looking for the treat. In a "training" situation, I think the dogs can figure out which dog is getting the click, but when we are just looking for the dog to do something cute, both dogs respond.

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