Day 5
There was rain in the forecast so we worked close to home today. This training session was focused on skills rather than completing routes. We started off by teaching Eagle how to target trash cans because we will literally need to find them every day. PSA please clean up after your dog, everyone else in the neighborhood appreciates it. We used clicker training to associate a word with the can, I use "bin" because it's short and easy. While in front of the trash can I would make a fist, put it against the side of the can at Eagles level, ask him for a touch, click and feed. After a few repetitions I would then add bin in front of touch (Bintouch), he would bop my fist with his nose, click and feed. Then I would drop the touch and just say bin. Once he established that bin means put your nose up to the trash can, we would take a few steps away and I would tell him "to the bin", he would walk over to it and show me that it's in front of us. You can target pr...
