Go Get the Phone:
1.Hand your dog the receiver and tell him/her to Take It. Click and treat your dog for taking it in his/her mouth and holding it for a few seconds.
2.Hand your dog the phone and back away from him/her, encouraging him/her to follow you. Click and treat him/her for carrying the phone to you. Make sure the click happens while he/she is moving toward you, not when he/she arrives.
3.Repeat this step again, but now click and treat your dog for delivering the phone to you.
4.Put the phone on the floor and ask him//her to Take It;click and treat him/her for picking up the phone.
5.Put the phone at greater distances and have him/her retrieve it from further away. Time the click and treat for when your dog puts her mouth on the phone.
6.Increase the difficulty by delaying the click until he/she has the phone and is turning back to you. You can use a voice prompt like his/her name or the Come command.
7.Label the behavior Get the Phone by saying it right before the commands Take It and Come, until you can gradually fade the old commands and replace them with the new command Go Get the Phone.
8.Practice in short sessions until your dog begins to move toward the phone on the command Go Get the Phone.
9.Good job, you've taught your dog Go Get the Phone!
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