Follow this step by step training video to teach your dog to shut doors using shaping and clicker or verbal marker training. It's easy and fun for you both! Almost any dog can do it! This video (part 1& 2 combined) was a finalist in the Canis Film Festival 2009! Jessie took about 30 minutes of actual training time to learn the basics to the end of Part 1, then additional training (see Part 2) to add the cue, fade the clicker and treats, add distance and generalize. We use positive training ...
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what’s that clicker type thing your using?
my dog could use one!
Hi Denise,
Have a look at another video ’9 Habits of Effective Clicker Trainers-Rewards” and you will see that once the dog understands the basic behavior you can switch over to other (non-food) rewards. During training, subtract the amount of food that you use for training from the dog’s meal. This way you keep your dog in great shape.
i’m surprised the dog isn’t any fatter
u can buy the clicker in a pet shop or something
Wow this is amazing stuff, it really helps with my canine psychology course. Thanks very much for the help! This is a brilliant way to show everybody the correct way to train the dog how to do this neat little trick.
What a lovely dog you have! Thanks Vancouver Assistance dogs!
Great work
Sarah
-UK-
where did you get that clicker?
Sweet! Lovely job!
great video, cool trick and you go through it so as it’s really easy to understand. 5*
Thanks! It’s actually easy to do. Jessie is a ‘by the book’ kind of dog when it comes to learning and I have had more biddable dogs. But she has learned how to work with me and offer behaviors to see what gets rewarded. Having some terrier in her, she had what some would call a stubborn streak in her when we got her. That has almost all disappeared by using clicker training.
wooooooooow you are a cool trainer
smart cool dog
If you have other ideas of assistance/service type tasks you’d like to see in a step by step training format like this, please pass them along!