A click
always means a treat, even is it is by mistake.
However you don't always have to use the clicker.
If my dogs have learned the behavior I switch to my voice (and a treat). A sit I will not reward with a treat (only with voice or not at all). But a complex trick will still get them a reward here.
I'd go for just not the jumping (in the end you want people to enter and the dog will only walk past them).
But you can start by letting her sit first to make it easier.
Example of impuls control:
My dogs have to waite untill I put their foodbowls on the ground
and give them the okay. Untill than they have to sit and waite. They may look at the food, but not eat it. Eye contact is always a good thing but not a rquirement.
It may happen that I have to get someting from inside and the dogs have to stay outside (for example when I walk in town). I than will tie their leashes to something and leave. If I come back, the dogs have to patiently waite untill I give them a pet (reward them with my voice), jumping etc. is not 'allowed'.
So impuls control means that the dog has to patiently wait (control himself) eventhough there is something very temping (food, doordashing etc.)
Something from another tread (not by me) about how you can learn impuls control:
As for impulse control, this is an ongoing battle. Working on it though! I wonder if you guys have better ideas for methods or if I'm doing it right..? Right now I put her in a sit-stay or down-stay and use one of her toys(one of her favorites) and put it in front of her. If she doesn't go for it then I say okay and let her play with it. I've tried treats before, but if I don't correct her fast enough for getting up, they're gone faster than I can try to get her to drop it. The toy she'll reliably drop immediately and work for/be motivated to stay for it, so I hope that's the right thing to use that instead of food. Once she reliably stays when it's still, I start moving it around a bit. If she stays, I'll say 'okay!' and she gets some play time with it. And so on. I'm not sure if this is something I should implement the clicker on since the clicker is more food related(praise wise) and I think she'd be in 'treat mode' if I did. I haven't tried, but is that correct? Also, when I so the impulse control stuff, should I wait for eye contact before praising and releasing her or is it(in your opinion) okay for her to be focused on the toy?
You are on the right way with the impuls control right now! You could use the food as a distraction if she gets better at it. A clicker isn't really nessecary as it isn't a behavior which requires precision and if you have the idea it will make it harder for her I wouldn't use it (I personally don't use it with these kind of behaviors).
For me impuls control means acting controlled in a situation. So the dog has to keep calm and stay were he is and not give in to the temptation. If I want them to look at me, than I will ask for 'focus'. But it isn't a requirement. My dogs have to waite before they may eat untill I give the releasecue for example. Sometimes I ask for a focus before releasing them, so they will now watch at me once in a while in the hope that this will earn them their release. Eye contact is always a good thing here (especially if they want something from me), but not a requirement. I also sometimes just keep a treat in my hand with a stretched arm (away from me). I don't say anything than but the dogs will immediately look at me in order to get their treat.
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