Paw Targeting – how to teach tricks dog training clicker training
This video is a how to video on how to teach your dog to target an object with his front paws. This is not only a great game to teach your puppy or dog how to learn to learn, but it is the foundation for many behaviors and tricks. Tricks with this foundation include- wave, shake , high five, standing up, hands up, close the door, cop cop, say your prayers, descrimination, freestyle foot work and more. Take care with large breed dogs or dogs who have sharp toe nails as you can get slapped. Perhaps teach shake down the line when you have more experience as a trainer so that your large dog doesnt learn to paw at you as their favorite behavior. The great thing about the technique that I am using is that the dog isnt learning to paw at your skin, but at an object, so you can get that on stimulus control before it is just your arm (for very large and powerful dog breeds). You can also click them fore being gentle before you switch to using just your hand for shake.
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another great video. Concise and well-explained. I’m really looking forward to following along as you train your new pup.
Very systematically explained! 5 stars!
Great !!
This is just the video I needed !!!
Thanks ! x
Keep up with the great videos
Oh you finally done a video with your puppy. He’s a fast learner. keep it up
very nice as always!!! great work…
really nice
always great vids from you, short and powerful, effective
Keep it going, you rule!
he’s so cute but what’s his name???? xD My dog loves giving Paws and that`s always sooooo sweeet
Did you name your new puppy?
great video, I saw you showing the foot target on a video you made ages ago and that is how I found out how to train Holly cross paws
that seem such a long time ago now! the foot target is so helpful for training so many things, I just love how you break things down, so easy to follow! I was just about to make a video on high five but you really covered it so well here already, we are all so lucky that you post these amazing videos 
i like these videos where it shows the progression of the training. did you give your puppy a name already?
Sounds like a nice fun easy one for Piper, she’ll love learning this! And I’m guessing this targeting can be useful for other tricks you might want to teach in the future?
Thanks for the video!
i know you’ll come up with a great name for him
keep up the great work, your the one who inspired me to do clicker training and its going very well with the little four month, but still not so great with my eskie. xD
Congrats with the new puppy Em, I hope to be getting a new dog very soon (my 8 year old Collie was put down last May). Very excited about getting back into clicker training! Thanks for the awesome vids!
each new video is even better than the oldet ones! looks like yout puppy had a blast
Excellent video…lovely cute pup:)
Nice Training !
awesome video tutorial! u just continue to out do yourself! keep up the great work. : )
I love how Kiko comes up and lies there watching:)
Great video, as usual!
he’s so adorable! great!
not bad
Excellent video Em, I will be paying very close attention to all puppy training. . . *****!!
Great new video:)! Your puppy is super CUUTE! 5*
Great video. Im glad you mentioned the part about a dog becoming dominate with one paw. That happened to my dog and it is very hard to get him to offer the other one.