- Hi, today we're going to be teaching your dog
a really fun trick, and that is the difference
between left and right.
Ready, Bee, left.
Yes, left.
Yes, right, yes right.
Yes, good girl.
This is my seven month old puppy Beeline.
My name is Kale.
Welcome back to McCann Dogs.
(dog yelping)
It's really important when we're training together
that we work hard to enrich our dog's life,
and one of the ways that we can do that
is by trick training.
Trick training is really fun
because there's no consequence,
and it's trained with purely positive methods.
It's a great way to build a bond
and relationship with your dog.
So we're going to start off by step number one,
teaching your dog to spin left or right.
Now, I have a smaller dog,
so I can do this from my knees.
If you have a larger dog,
you may consider standing up to try this.
So I have a few pieces of food in my hand,
and all I'm going to do is start off
by making sure she's in a standing position,
and I'm gonna keep my hand level with her nose,
so that as I turn my hand,
she's likely to follow it around in a circle
rather than sitting,
so I'm just going to start off
by moving my hand really slowly.
Try again.
Yes, good girl.
And I don't need to say any commands at this point
because I'm assuming she doesn't know what she's doing.
When you begin, your puppy probably won't know
what it means quite yet,
so there's no point in saying a command.
Yes, good girl.
So as she finishes the turn,
I'm going to say yes, good girl,
and I'm going to reward her.
You're just going to repeat this process
until your dog starts to turn more easily
each time you practice.
Good girl.
Yes.
Now once your dog can turn very easily with the food,
you can start to put it on a command.
Now you can be as creative as you want with the command,
but one of the things that I think is really cute
is teaching them a left and right.
I also do a lot of agility training,
and I find the left and right command very handy
for when I'm on course with my dogs as well.
So what I would do is make sure I know the difference
between my lefts and rights,
which is a challenge for me sometimes,
and I'm gonna get the food on the nose,
tell her left.
Yes, and then turn her in that direction.
Good girl.
Left.
Yes, good girl.
Remember our good timing.
I need to say the command followed one second later
by the lure with the food.
Ready, left.
Yes, good girl.
Left.
I think somebody wants to go right.
Good girl.
Now I'm going to try right.
Right.
Yes, good girl.
Right, hey cheating.
Right.
Yes, good girl.
So she was wrong there.
She guessed and went the opposite direction.
No big deal.
I actually love that she's trying to do something
in order to get the reward.
She's being creative,
so I want to encourage those behaviors.
I'm not going to get upset with her about it.
Okay, one time.
I got one more treat.
Right, yes, good girl.
Very nice little Bee.
Now as you're practicing, there are a few common mistakes
that sometimes comes up.
One of them is that often handlers
try to move their hand too quickly,
spin them around with the food too fast,
and sometimes the dogs lose focus really easily,
and then they aren't able to spin all the way around.
So make sure when you're practicing that you first start
move your hand incredibly slow.
Slow enough that your dog can easily follow the food
around in a circle continuously.
And as they start to get better,
you certainly can make your hand move faster and faster.
The second thing that I often see
is people often hold their hand a little bit too high.
So they go to spin their dog,
and because the hand's too high,
the dogs end up being stuck in a sit.
Now it's hard to spin your dog.
I know, it's difficult, when they're in a sitting position,
so if I just lower my hand so it's at head level,
good girl, and then I try to turn her.
Yes, yes, good girl.
I'm much less likely to get a sit.
Hopefully you'll find that helpful.
Now I've just practice a whole bunch
with food hidden in my signal hand.
So what I'm going to do now
is I'm going to try a couple
without any food in my signal hand.
Now I have food ready here
to jackpot reward her, bonus reward her,
if she's able to turn on my command and hand signal.
Hey Ms. Bee, come here.
Ready?
Left, yes, left, yes.
Good girl.
Ready, right, yes, right, yes, right.
Yes, good girl!
Very nice.
One more, left, yes.
Right, yay!
Excellent girl.
And then I can reward her once she's responded
to my command.
Good for you.
Now this process of training may take you a few minutes,
it may take you a few weeks,
it may take you a few months.
It really just depends on your dog's willingness to learn
or how much shaping and training
you've done with your dog previous to this point.
Come here babes.
So if things are going along well,
and you see that your dog's even starting
to beat you to the punch a little bit.
As you start to say left or right,
your dog kinda already start to go in that direction,
your dog's probably telling you they are ready
to learn this on a verbal command.
So what I'm going to do this time
is I have my food ready,
I'm gonna tell her left or right,
but I'm not going to also encourage her.
Good girl.
With my hand.
I'm just gonna keep my hands quiet,
and if she's able to do it just on my word alone,
I'm gonna really generously reward her.
Ready, Bee?
Left.
Yes, good left, good girl.
Left.
Yes, good left.
You're so smart.
Good girl.
Ready, right.
Yes, good.
Right.
Right, yes, good girl.
So she went left instead of right.
Once there again, no big deal.
I'm just going to reward her for the thing
that she does correctly and just sorta ignore
the things that she does incorrectly.
No big deal.
Good girl.
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For now, I'm Kale, this is little Beeline.
Thanks for watching, hope to see you soon.