Hi everybody! In this tutorial I'm going to show you how you can teach your dog
to wave both of his paws like little Epic is doing here. So some dogs find it easier than others and
if your dog already knows to sit pretty it's going to be easier because they've already built
the muscles to sit up so that they can then wave their paws. So there are many ways that you could
do it you could either do targeting of both paws where the dog puts both paws on your arm like that
or you could do one paw and then the other and I have a video on how to train your dog
to offer one paw and then the other and that's the way that I'm going to show you how to do it
in this tutorial. Now with Epic here when i first got her at eight weeks
she was already offering this behavior when she wanted something like to go out the door
or to get a treat and i actually didn't reinforce it instead i built it from scratch
so she wouldn't just offer it all the time. So that's one of the downfalls of if you mark a
behavior that the dog does without putting a cue on it fast enough sometimes they can offer it,
thinking that that's what you want them to do if they want to ask for a treat.
So i want her to sit calmly and then offer the behavior when i do this with my two fingers
and i'm going to call it "celebrate" "ready celebrate good" So i'm going to show you
how i'm training Halo to do it so we've had a couple of training sessions and you'll see him
progress hopefully. So i like to have the dog on a mat like this to do the exercise to keep
them in place but there's no need you could have just the dog on a non-slip surface but
this surface is actually less slippery than this carpet so it's a nice surface for balancing. I
first warmed up by getting halo to offer his left ball and his right paw on cue. "wave good bye good
wave good
wave good" And then I worked on teaching him to wave without touching my hand
because the trick where he uses both paws he's not going to touch my hand
so waving with the left paw and waving with the right paw. So this is wave good and bye
and if he creeps forwards a little like that i can just lure him back onto the object and get
him to sit. That's why i have this object because when he uses his feet specifically he comes closer
and closer in a very excited way. I then also worked on getting him to sit pretty so you can
teach that first and i have a tutorial tutorial on how to teach sit pretty in the description below.
"Halo sit pretty good" The next thing i did was ask him to do sit pretty and then i said "wave
and bye" and gave him the hand signals for both of his feet and then any sort of paw movement
i would mark and reinforce. "sit pretty! wave and bye. good" Now if you don't want your sit pretty
to turn into something where they always wave, you can also just ask for sit pretty
and then mark and reinforce. And sometimes i'll go back to using luring when training a new behavior
so that the dog isn't going to be offering things in between. So i could say "sit pretty" and lure
him into the behavior. And now i'm going to ask for the different paws. "are you ready?
sit pretty wave and bye good good job. sit pretty wave and bye good" Now if he gets up and waves
the paws i'm going to mark him but then i'm going to ask him to sit again and mark and reinforce him
for sitting pretty so that he's getting used to the concept that it's about sitting pretty and
moving his feet not standing up. "sit pretty wave and bye good" And i can hold my hands down lower
too if that is encouraging to him to get up if i have my hands up here. "ready wave and bye good
sit pretty wave and bye good sit pretty wave and bye" If you wanted to add a new cue so that you
don't have to say the two cues back to back, you say that just before you say the old cue.
So i'm going to say "celebrate" and then i'm going to do the hand signals and see if he gets
it if not i'm going to use my old verbal cue. "sit pretty celebrate good sit pretty celebrate
good" The other way that you can teach this is teaching your dog to sit pretty and do a high ten
with both of his paws and then what you're going to do is ask for a high ten but hold your hands
just out of reach so your dog can't reach them and that can initiate the waving behavior. So you're
gonna mark the millisecond the dog is reaching out for your hands and not touching them. " sit pretty
celebrate good Can you cover your nose? good cover your nose good
so pretty be cool okay sit pretty be cool okay sit pretty be cool okay sit pretty be cool
okay sit pretty be cool good" Thank you so much for watching! If you'd like to support my work
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