Dog Trick of the Day

4/21/12

Go Get Your Dish:

1.Hand your dog his dish and tell him to Take It.  Click and treat him for holding the dish.

2.Take a step away and call him to you.  Click and treat him for moving toward you with the dish in his mouth.

3.Put the dish on the floor and tell him to Take It;click and treat him for picking up the dish.

4.Now, repeat this step but back away and click and treat the dog for picking up the dish and moving toward you.

5.Put the dish closer and closer to where you normally keep it and send him to take it over greater distances.

6.As your dog gets good at this replace Take It with the new verbal cue Wanna Eat? by saying the new cue right before the old cue, until the dog starts the behavior on the new cue.

7.Fantastically done, you've taught your dog Go Get Your Dish!