How to train your dog to touch your hand (and why it is such an important thing to master)

This episode is a rebroadcast. It first aired on May 15, 2020.

There is one behavior we teach every dog we work with at School For The Dogs: Touch!

This is an easy-to-teach building block that you can use to build... whatever you want! In this episode, Annie outlines how to teach touch, and talks about this behavior's countless uses and variations.

Ken Ramirez demonstrates different types of targeting.

Full Transcript at “The Most Important Behavior You'll Ever Train”

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