Quote Originally Posted by binka_nugget
Are you sure she's snapping at your hand because she's afraid? I noticed Kai would nudge my hand or even mouth it when I was introducing the clicker to him. I knew he got it because when he heard the click, he automatically knew a treat was coming.. hence the reason why he went straight for the treat. She could be snapping because she knows a treat is coming, or because she isn't getting a treat and thinks she should (and she should, every single time).

If she thinks I have the clicker in my other hand, she hides from me and refuses the treat. She was very quick to learn what the clicker looked like, and that she didn't like it one bit. I was offering her a treat, and she acted like I was going to punish her, but she really wanted the treat, so she snatched it real quickly and ran into another room. She never acted like this until I tried the clicker.

I am taking her to 'school' tonight and will ask him about this; maybe we'll try something else. His objective for trying clicker training was to be able to communicate with her an immediate reward for good behavior. She tends to ignore me or blow me off until she decides to do what I ask her to...it's not that she doesn't understand the commands, just that she's stubborn sometimes. His thoughts were that if she could recognize the clicker as a reward in and of itself, I would have more accurate timing in praising her good behavior, and that it would make her respond more immediately to me.