Well, Day 3 of clicker training, still doing 2 sessions each, both around the same times of day. I'm wrapping the clicker in a dish cloth for Tasha's session. She's not trembling anymore or running panicked to the end of her leash, but she doesn't like it still. I can get her to eat dry treats now (I have some Charlie Bear liver bite sized treats at the moment that they seem to really like). She also doesn't jump with each click now, but like I said she still doesn't like it. I clicked it once and rewarded when she looked at me and she quit looking at me after that .

Still, some progress is better than none, so compared to yesterday:

She eats the treats with more enthusiasm
She doesn't tremble and try to escape
She doesn't jump in startlement with the clicks

I'm wondering how long I should keep up with the introductory phase, I don't want to try to train with it when she still doesn't like the pop, but I'm somewhat afraid she'll just never be thrilled with the clicker. Maybe I should wait until I have some particularly exciting treats like the hot dogs suggested, but I did use some bits of turkey cold cuts this morning. She got a bit over exuberant with taking the treats and was getting my fingers a bit when she grabbed them. I had to work with her for a moment or two to get her to be more gentle with taking it by not giving it to her if she "bit" my fingers with it.

Tommy is just whipping through the exercises with flying colors. This morning I did the "look at me and not the treat I'm holding out" exercise and he got that down very well. He already automatically sits when he's about to get a treat so this afternoon, I just started walking around with him on the leash and then when I stopped, he would sit and I would click and reward.

After the sessions when I'm rubbing him down and excitedly telling him how good he is, he just wriggles and grins with pure joyfulness. He just absolutely loves the whole thing.