Okay guys, what we're going to be looking at now, we're going to be looking at our dog
how to leave something, whether it be a piece of meat that you drop on the floor when you're
cooking at home, or whether it's something in your hand that you don't want him to just
snatch and take it.
So we're not going to actually allow the dogs to take something until we say, okay, you're
allowed to take it now.
And nine times out of ten what we're going to do is actually give it to them.
I'm going to do a little demonstration with one of my little dogs now, just to show you
roughly what we're going to do, and then we're going to break it down and give you guys a
go at it.
Okay.
Anthony's demonstrating with his 11 month old Jack Russell Terrier, Minx.
So what we're going to do, we're going to take something relatively exciting, what the
dog wants.
I've got some kind of different treats here which I know you can see here.
She wants it off me.
It could be something really exciting, a bit of chicken, bit of sort of liver, meat, or
just a bit of kibble that they really find interesting.
You're going to put it in your hand, okay, so you have the dog in front of you.
You're going to have it in your hand.
As you can see, she's coming forward to get it.
I want to encourage her forward, alright, she can come and take it if she wants.
So she wants to take whatever I've got here.
I'm going to offer it to her, okay.
If she comes forward to take it, okay, I'm going to just close my hand.
She's not allowed to take it out of my hand until I'm ready for her to do it.
So I'm there, okay, She hasn't come forward so I take it and have it.
If your dog's come forward to get it, which is more likely than not they're going to,
okay, all I want you to do literally is just close your hand up.
They can come forward, they can scratch, they can bite, they can do whatever they want to
get that.
They're not going to get that food until they relax a little bit.
Puppies like to pick all sorts of things up, whether it be stuff you've dropped or what
they've found.
Bits of wood, bits of bark, all sorts of things.
Again, this is a very important command to her, to get things out of her mouth, because
they may pick up anything that could be dangerous to them, some kind of sort of poison or some
sort of plastic wrapping or something which they could swallow which causes a problem.
So if we teach this to the dog and they understand us right from the start, it's going to be
a lot easier to be able to remove anything that they may pick up.
Okay, what I want you to do is open the hand up and he still doesn'tcome forward and take
it.
So when he's sat there, okay, you should be able to open your hand up and he doesn't come
forward for it.
So the hand's open and the treat's still in it.
And then you're going to take the treat from the hand and then give to him.
Okay so open put your hand a bit lower.
I've trained him with 'off' so can I
Don't say anything to start with.
Don't say anything okay.
Right, so just wait for him.
Okay, right, he's offered it, just open your hand up, if he goes to take it just close
it again.
Close it again.
Just keep closing it like that, that's fine.
All the time which he's doing that, every time your hand starts to open and he comes
forward okay, you just close it up and in the end he's going to think well, okay, that's
fine.
Every time I come forward nothing happens.
Right, open it up now.
Close it again.
That's it, just keep just keep doing that, that's fine.
Every time he comes forward to take it, you close it.
It's like a door just kind of shutting in his face.
Close it, good, well done.
Close it.
Take it and give it to him.
Brilliant, there you go, well done.
Excellent.
Because you can see, it only took him a couple times of the hand just closing and he finally
worked out that every time he comes forward the hand shuts in his face and he can't get
anything.
So it's easier for him just to kind of control himself, hold back, wait for the hand to become
open and for you to reach forward and give him the food.
Excellent, well done.
Okay, how's going?
Let's have a look.
Bring your hand away from your body a little bit.
Okay, there you go.
Okay, so while she's doing all that you just keep your hand nice and closed.
As soon as she loses concentration in that hand, okay, I want you to open it up again.
Okay, so she knows that it's there.
That's it, keep it open.
Good.
Well done.
Remember to try and bring that other hand across to give it to her, okay.
Alright, excellent, well done.
Good work.
Okay, so we're going to try and progress that forward a little bit now.
What we've done is, we've done it a little bit set up so we can block it easily with
our hand.
The food's already in our hand.
What we're going to try and do now is we're going to do it as if we were at home cooking
or something, and you're on the side and the bit of steak which you're cooking falls on
the floor.
So we're going to be down on the floor with the dog again.
Okay.
And what we're going to do, we're going to place something on the floor.
Every time she comes forward, I just block it off.
She moves away, I'm going to take a piece and give it to her.
I'm not going to let her come and take it off the floor, okay.
It's there again.
She can take it.
So there's a nice big lot, we saw there, on the floor for her.
Okay, it's right here, right.
So you see, she's not trying to charge forward to take it.
She's holding, okay, position well, back in there.
So if we were in the kitchen or something, like I said, cooking something up and I dropped
something down, they're not going to just rush forward and steal it.
So we want the dog to understand that other things can be around, okay, and it doesn't
mean that they can just go and take it.
Okay.
Let's give that a go with the puppies.
Alright, so just crouch down on the floor again, and you're just basically just going
to put a small pile of food on the floor so he can see.
Just keep your hand over the top of it, because he's probably straight away going to want
to jump on and get it.
Okay, just show in the floor and just keep your hand there.
That's it, there you go, that's brilliant.
Well done, you just keep blocking him off there.
He can look at it as long as he doesn't come forward.
Leave your hand off.
Take one and give it to him.
There you go, well done.
Okay, be careful he doesn't steal it again.
Well done.
Take your hand off.
Take one, give it to him.
Brilliant, there you go.
Excellent.
Excellent, well done.
Brilliant.
Very, very good.