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Once ‘Tidy’ is reliably on cue, add more toys, one at a time. Bear in mind that favoured toys can…

You can now start to use the cue on other doors around your house! If your dog seems uncertain, take…

Once your dog is consistently pushing the door on cue, you can remove the target from the door and continue…

Once your dog is comfortably and consistently touching their paw (or nose) to the target held in your hand in…

For the next step, we want to slowly start pairing the target with the door you would eventually like your…

We now want to transfer our dog’s skills at touching our hand to touching a target object.  The target you…

The next step is to present your open palm to your dog (with no treat your hand) and give them…

We can teach targeting work with either a nose target or a paw target. The videos and steps here will…

Target: this should be small enough to fit in the palm of your hand but large enough for your dog…

In this course we’ll be teaching your dog how to close a cupboard door on cue, as beautifully demonstrated by…