Items About Assistance
- Doors and Self Control
- Learning how to perform a behavior is important, but fine-tuning that behavior through shaping is essential for assistance dogs. Teaching self-control will help to ensure both you and your dog
- Find and Indicate: Scent Discrimination
- Recognizing and indicating objects by their scent is a key skill for search and rescue work, competition obedience, and the ability of service dogs to locate lost or misplaced objects like wallets and keys. In this video lesson, you'll learn a technique f[...]
- Find and Indicate: Teaching Your Dog Scent Discrimination
Recognizing and indicating objects by their scent is a key skill for search and rescue work, competition obedience, and the ability of service dogs to locate lost or misplaced objects like wallets and keys. In this video lesson, you'll learn a techniq[...] - Foot Targeting
- This clip begins by teaching how to charge the clicker before teaching the process of foot targeting. Foot targeting starts with simply touching a mat on the floor but quickly advances to more advanced targets including tap lights, toys, buttons, and door[...]
- Learning to "Put": Putting an Object Away
- Putting an object in a target location is an important skill for any assistance dog, not just for cleaning up toys, but also for objects that the handler needs help putting away. This video shows you how to teach your dog that skill in a generic environme[...]
- Panda: An Assistance Horse, of Course
Watch the amazing minature horse Panda as she is trainded to become an amazing assistance animal! Alexandra shows us footage from Panda's first training session and we are able to watch as Panda grows and learns to become a trustworthy partner. - Panda: Training a Miniature Horse for Assistance
- This clip focuses on Panda, a miniature horse that was clicker trained to become a guide horse, and how she learned the behaviors needed for guide work. Starting with the first day of training through the learning of everyday behaviors, Panda is able to o[...]
- Push The Light
- For some dogs, this is a fun trick that can impress people, but for assistance dogs this is an essential skill needed as part of their repertoire. This video demonstrates how the skill of turning on and off lights can be trained whether or not the dog is [...]
- Retrieving Lost Objects
- This behavior has been back chained (taught in reverse) for solidity and is demonstrated through the behavior of finding and retrieving a lost object in an outdoor environment. Using a tea bag with a distinct smell attached to an object greatly helps a d[...]
- Shaping the Skill of Pulling
- Learn new and innovative ways for improving the skill of pulling, which is another necessity for all working service dogs. Watch as different pulling methods are demonstrated to ensure your dog will be able to assist you in a large variety of situations, [...]
- Shaping the Skill of Pushing: Buttons, Doors, Drawers, and More
- All assistance dogs should learn how to
- Teach
- Watch how quickly this important skill can be taught. Crossing behind a wheelchair is a necessary skill for a lot of service dogs to improve maneuverability in less-than-convenient places or during less-than-convenient events.
- Teach a 360 Degree Turn in Place
- There are many reasons to want a dog to turn in place on cue. Sometimes a dog can get tangled in their own leash and need help to untangle themselves, or sometimes facing the opposite way is useful. Turning in place is an important skill to have in any do[...]
- Teach a 360 Degree Turn in Place
There are many reasons to want a dog to turn in place on cue. Sometimes a dog can get tangled in their own leash and need help to untangle themselves, or sometimes facing the opposite way is useful. Turning in place is an important skill to have in any[...] - Teaching a 'Back up'
- Dogs inherently know how to back up; getting out of the way of everyday things such as feet, wheels, and other things they want to avoid. Teaching a dog to back up when needed may be one of the single most essential foundation skills a service dog must le[...]
- Teaching Curl in a Small Space
- Getting out of the way is a critical life skill for service dogs. Whether in a restaurant, on a bus, in an airplane, or while waiting in an airport, but most especially in any kind of crowded situation, knowing how to curl up underneath furniture is a han[...]
- Teaching Curl in a Small Space
- Getting out of the way is a critical life skill for service dogs. Dogs and their handlers must make certain that bodies, tails, and feet do not become tripping hazards. In a restaurant, on a bus, in an airplane, waiting in an airport, in any c[...]
- Clicker Train Your Own Assistance Dog Part 1 of 4
- This video, Basic Targeting and Advanced Applications, covers many topics for service and assistance dogs are including: how to train nose targeting and foot targeting behaviors, and using targeting to work with light switches, drawers, and cabin[...]
- Clicker Train Your Own Assistance Dog Part 2 of 4
- In this video,
- Clicker Train Your Own Assistance Dog Part 4 of 4
- This video, Of Dogs, Doors, and Self-Control, will teach you how to use behaviors that your dog has already learned and modify them to assist you with everyday tasks. Watch how basic behaviors can be shaped into advanced techniques for advanced a[...]
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