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http://www.sitmeanssit.com This video shows some games using targets. You would be able to do all kinds of variations off of this once you have the ability to stop, start, and send your dog wherever you want.

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Follow Jessie’s actual progress during the first steps learning to turn on a light switch. In under 4 minutes (approx. 45 clicks), she has the main idea.

Have you considered training your own assistance or service dog? Or trying out a new trick to impress friends?
Clicker training is the best way I have found to successfully train almost any dog.

I have been asked several times for footage of a dog learning a task or being shaped for the first time so new trainers could see the actual process and know what to expect. So here it is! Lots of repetition. Note she doesn’t get clicked for any behavior she offers that I don’t want later on such as pawing, stepping on or scratching the switch plate.

The only editing was for slow periods where she scrambled for food, when I repositioned myself as I was uncomfortable or when I turned on and off the camera.

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http://www.sitmeanssit.com Did you know you can start teaching your dogs to come to you with distraction starting in your own backyard? Get all the dogs together and use a target or placeboard for them to come back to while you are playing.

In a lot of cases, your own dogs can be the biggest distraction of all when they are all playing. It’s great exercise for them also.

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