Ack! It's your first trick! What do you do?! Why, "touch", of course.
In this video, Emily Larlham (dogmantics.com) expertly describes how to teach "touch" in a step-by-step process. Later in the video, she demonstrates how "touch" is used as a basic targeting technique to build new and more complicated tricks.
Watch this video and try teaching "touch" to your dog.
In this video, Emily Larlham (dogmantics.com) expertly describes how to teach "touch" in a step-by-step process. Later in the video, she demonstrates how "touch" is used as a basic targeting technique to build new and more complicated tricks.
Watch this video and try teaching "touch" to your dog.
If clicker training is still a mystery to you, please see Resources for more information on the basics of using a clicker. Or if you don't own a clicker, consider teaching a marker word. Again, Emily Larlham has a great video on her site on training without a clicker.