When it comes to Bloodhounds, the most important thing in the beginning is to teach the dog to contact the trainer and also maintain the contact (at least for me it was). When the dog is independently sniffing around and ignoring you, you cannot even dream of being able to teach him anything.

In practice it works like this: every time the dog comes to you or even looks at you, click and treat and praise him. When the dog has come to you, you can also do something nice with him, e.g. throw a ball for him. If the dog does not independently start offering the behavior you want (i.e. come to you on his own) you can lure him to do this by e.g. hiding from him (if the dog roams free ahead of you) or just by stopping, usually the dog will eventually become curious to see why his human is not coming along. I attached the "come" cue to the behavior when the dog was already running towards me, this way the dog learns quickly what "come" means and that making contact is always a smart thing to do, you never know what nice things you get for doing it.

Clicker training

• Clicker training
• Conditioning
• Keeping contact
• First training session
• Principles of shaping
• Touch stick
• The word "wrong"
• Can you improve show behavior?
• Eliminating fears

Obedience

• Obedience