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July 29, 2021

Easy Activity – Teaching a Dog to Target

A simple, fun, foundation behavior. Similar to Hand Targeting, Wendy, All Dogs Gym’s Director of Training, demonstrates getting started with several of her own dogs—shaping the dog to nose-touch a target. This is one of the ways to start shaping behaviors—so much fun, and so useful for teaching different behaviors! As you’ll see in Wendy’s the […]

Article by Gail Fisher / Easy Activities, Ideas from the Covid Quarantine, Training / Hand targeting, Shaping, Shaping Behavior, Targeting

July 29, 2021

Easy Activity – Shaping Behaviors

Shaping behavior is also called “successive approximation.”  It is moving a behavior in small  (even tiny) increments getting closer and closer to the ultimate goal behavior. The trainer communicates with the dog using a “mark”—which can be a click or other sound, or a word such as “yes” or “good.”  The mark says “That behavior… […]

Article by Gail Fisher / Dog Learning, Easy Activities, Ideas from the Covid Quarantine, Training / Shaping, Shaping Behavior, Successive Approximation

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