We foster a lot of fearful & anxious dogs. So, one of our basic tools in building trust is to teach our foster pups hand targeting. This is a great relationship builder and easy for the dog and human!
Here's a great link on how to Teach Your Dog to Hand Target
And here's Torii's first targeting sessions. This was a couple days into foster care. When this video was taken, we could not touch Torii so this was a nice way to engage with her.
Here we are the next day and Torii has quickly figured out this fun game! Sweet Torii is focused and ready to work - whoever says you can't teach an old dog tricks clearly hasn't met Torii.
Rember that Torii is overweight so we are monitoring her food intake. And food intake includes treats! You don't need to give a dog a whole treat for them to want to keep working. So, break down those treats into smaller pieces.
We are currently using Boulder dog food company turkey bits and the dogs love them!
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| I can break once piece into 4 to 5 small pieces |
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