수잔 개럿의 반려견을 위한 타겟 스틱 훈련 1부 - 타겟팅의 모든 것

your hand? Because it's limited. I couldn't leave it on the set and go offset behind camera. Likewise, you could target your dogs to a certain location and then go and open the front door. You couldn't do that if it all required, relied on your hand. Could you? True story. So let's look at all the different pieces. Now, the obvious one, the nose target. Most people know about the nose target and a lot of people just teach the dog to touch their nose to the palm of your hand. Now you could do it with touch and release or I'll often teach a dog to hold the backside and touch and release the palm. There's the side of the face. I will use that when I'm working on my dog's husbandry behaviors, when I want them lying flat out on their side. Now to get that behavior, I might start with a flat target for them. Maybe something like this or that where they have to touch their head to that side. Then there's the chin. I use chin targets a ton. So chin targets would be something I'll use for body awareness, a lot of great fitness. I mean, if you're going to spend the effort of teaching your dog something, why not have it be something that gives them some great benefits physically? So body awareness exercises, I will use the chin target. I will also use the chin target for husbandry. So I'll have the dog target their chin to my palm so that the veterinarian can do anything they want to them and they know to just hold position. Now you could go, this could be another one 11 or this could be three B, but I also teach my dogs to target the bridge of their nose to my hand. So if I want to look in their teeth or I use this every single day, when I give them the, one of the supplements that I use for my dogs, great product, um, one TDC, I'll put a link to a discount code. You can get on one TDC, uh, in the, in the notes on this video, but I teach my dogs to target the bridge of their nose to my hand. So it makes it super easy for me to put that one TDC right in their mouth, each paw. So right, front, right paw, front, left paw, or each of the back paws. Again, you could do things like teaching a wave or shake a paw. I like to teach my dogs to stretch because it's a great exercise for them to do just to make sure everything is equally balanced before I go and run with them, but it's a great exercise for your dogs to know. So you can tell you hurt. Let me see. Can you stretch? Oh, you can. Okay, good. Um, the side, uh, the rib area. So I could, I teach my dogs to do that, to lay flat out on their side, target that side area. You could teach

them to go up against something. Um, last year or two years ago, I actually spent five days training dolphins, manatees, and sea lions at dolphin discovery. So a friend of mine invited me and a, and a few of my students to go backstage and do some training for five days. It was amazing experience. And it was a mind blow to see how many different targeting they call them stations are so similar to what we do in dog training. The only difference is our dogs aren't swimming. Although you could teach your dog to target while they're swimming. Okay. Um, the hip, I teach my dogs to target their nose when combining targeting, target their nose to their own body. Again, just another flexibility exercise. You can get them to target their butt. You could get them to target, um, the middle of their back or their tail. There's just so many things. So there's, the benefits are long stretching in the dog's physical body awareness and their, um, fitness level, because it gives you something you can do with your dog and it gives you a baseline. So if your dog happens to get sick or, uh, heaven forbid, one of my dogs ended up in a coma and was paralyzed. So her rehab for the many months that followed, I knew how high she could raise each paw. I knew how much she could stretch out. And that gave me a baseline to head towards during her rehab. So those are some of the areas. Now, what are some of the behaviors now with nose targeting? It could be as simple as teaching your dog to sit by putting the target above their hand, their nose. You could teach them to down or to stand, but I do the same thing with a, with a foot target. So I might target their front feet and get them to do the same thing without moving those front feet. So with a, with a nose target, it might be their front feet can move. And with their paw target, I want sit down, stand with their, only their back feet moving. So again, it's just using their bodies differently. You can use the nose target to teach weaving between your legs. You can teach the nose target to do, um, like just so many different tricks, spin in a circle or go around something or crawl under something or scoop backwards. You know, you're basically, it's your, your imagination, the paw target. As I said, I, I also do the sit down stand with the front paw target. I use the rear paw target to teach something like backup where they understand to back up to something. Also with those paw targets, if you compete, compete in the sport of dog agility, it's great for the dogs to understand, to hit a target. If you ever, uh, plan on doing

something like a running, uh, a running dog walk. So the, the paw targets, you could also use, um, I use them to teach my dogs to a trick of crossing their legs. Again, another great flexibility exercise where they cross their legs one over the other. Um, and also things like, um, with the, with the nose target, you could do weaving between your legs. I, I use the paw targets for teaching the dogs to, um, go around a back wing, a backside of a wing in dog agility. So there's a number of things that you could teach your dogs to do any kind of targeting and, and the, the things that you might use to teach targeting are limited only by your imagination. It could be things you have around the house. It could be things that you specifically buy in video. Number two, I'm going to show you some of the things that I use when I'm teaching my dog to nose target, as well as, as I mentioned, I'm going to teach you how I train my dogs to do the nose target. So that's coming up in video number two. Be sure to, uh, watch for it. And if you subscribe and hit the notifications, you'll get notified when that video gets released. I'll see you next time.