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depending on where I want them, as a, need them as a family pet for sports, for fitness. So my question to you is name, name behaviors that you have grown from the hand target. What are some behaviors that you needed the hand target to help your dog understand how to do this behavior? I don't want my coffee, but I can drink from it. Okay. So I'm going to jump. Oh, hello from Finland. Retrieve. We've got over on Instagram, mostly for retrieving. Hi from San Diego. Hi from Alberta. Hi from Poland. Over on Instagram. So far one person in Instagram has said they use it for retrieving. Somebody, Danny the dog said teaching tricks. Somebody said, I've really, I've not really used it properly. Patty, make sure it's your honest care. And after today, I can, the sound is not great. Wobbly. Maybe that's wobbly. Here's what I can do. My sound settings. I'm going to go like Hello from Brazil. So, um, um, you can stand, calls, reinforcement zone, scent work. That's an interesting one read. That work with the foundation of the hand target. That's fascinating. Uh, it's worse with this mic. Yikes. Okay. We're going to change to another mic. Oh, what about, oh, that's a camera. How about, uh, my third mic. Okay. We've got three mics on the go. So question number one is how to use your hand target. Question number two is what Mike is better. Oh, uh, Chelsea says coming between legs at the start line. That's another really good one. Mike, number one, the mic, number two, and mic number three. I want to, I want to make sure you guys can hear me. This one is good now. I'm going to have to go back to the first one when I, if I do any demos today. So just, just keep that in mind. Okay. Um, obedience. So let's start off with, uh, what I look for in a hand target. I want number one, I think, you know, we, we, we need to have a goal whenever training anything. So number one, I want the dog's focus to be on my hand. I don't want them doing this because that leads to them hitting with the side of their face or giving these little scoopy touches where they're not really touching. So I want their focus for my hand. I don't want pretend touches where then they go. Where's my cookie. I want nice, firm presses. So if you have, think about building anything, if you have a very weak foundation, then the things that you build on top of that can't like, they can, they can't be anything but weak. You can't be bigger or better or stronger than the foundation. Right. And so we need the, the,

the ability to grow all of these amazing behaviors starts by having a dog who really, really, um, has a great understanding of the nose target. Kate says, hoping it will keep Simon from slamming into me. Kate, give me more information on what that looks like. And what do you mean by that? All right. So I'm just going to do a couple, uh, nose targets with my dogs. I'll do one with, uh, Momentum who's nine and a half years old. And, um, you know, she doesn't really get trained as often as my other dogs. And so it's not something that we really brush up on very often. And I'm going to do one with profit, who is my one year old and I'm going to change to a different mic. Because I also have to change to a different camera. Okay. Oh, that camera is kind of up in the air. Here we go. All right. Now let's see, Matt. I got you. Swaggy. Can you have it up here? Your iguana is here. Do you have an iguana? How's that? What they've wanted? Um, and can you, Kim, just go sit there and make sure that I'm in shock? Sure. Okay. So hand target. What I'm looking for. Uh, can you hold your arms? Pardon? So I'm looking for if however long that hand stays out, that she just keeps touching the hand. Okay. Oh, search. Okay. So that's what I call a really good hand target. That the cookies are here. She doesn't care. She keeps touching the hand. Okay. So that's the ideal goal. Um, maybe you have it up here, Moon. Profit, do you want to turn? Okay, bud. Oh. There you go. Okay. Other hand. Okay. There we go. So there's two, what I call focus forward, good presses in my hand target. So that's what we're looking for. And is that what you guys are getting? Is that the kind of hand target? Oh, is that the kind of hand target that you're seeing with your dogs right now? If it isn't, then you will want to go to the masterclass and I'll share with you at the end, how you can get a hundred percent free masterclass that we put out. What better way to celebrate your birthday than then give things away. So we're giving that away free. And speaking of giving away, where'd my toy go? Moo, can you bring me that thing? Bring me. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. How about I give away one of these for my birthday? So all you have to do to win this is share, share this live, go to any social media page you have, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. I don't know if you can share anything on YouTube and share this live. Say Susan was, Susan's live, sharing some really good information about hand targets. And come back here and say shared. And then we'll put your name in a draw. And this is

from the good folks at For My Murls. It's one of my favorite. I have a lot of favorite toys from them, but this is one of the favorites because it's got something that dogs, if they don't like balls, they'll like the fleece. I got it. You know what? A lot of my dogs just like to tug on the handle, but that's at least you have three options. Hello from Brazil. Okay. So a birthday tuggy. So Tony says not getting that she will press and wait. If she's not getting a cook, then she won wondering if it was correct and she'll try something else like a sit. Okay. Tony, jump over to the masterclass and that, and the step-by-step, if you follow those steps, it should help you. Okay. Just write them. Okay. So I see a bunch of you are sharing it. All right. Let's talk about the mistakes. Why people don't... Do you need a cookie because you're very cute? Momentum so rarely gets to be the demo dog. And I'm like, you know what, girlie, you get to be the demo dog today. Yeah. Um, so let's talk about why, why some people struggle with their, their hand targets. I'm going to get this question off of my screen here. There we go. Why is it that, what are some of the mistakes that people make that create a problem? I think number one is not having goal because it's such an easy behavior to talk, to teach, right? People will just say like, put a cookie in your hand and let the dog eat the cookie and then like give them the cookies here. And then they're going to start liking that. And I think it's, there isn't a focus, there isn't a focused goal. So my goal is I want the dog to be hitting, pressing hard into my hand. I want the dog to continue to press my hand until I mark that that's correct. Or I drop a reinforcement in for them. So not having a, a real clear goal because it's difficult to teach from a vague, um, training plan. So having a clear goal is super important. Number one. Um, number two, probably the biggest challenge is the human mechanics. So it's not having yourself organized, not being fast enough. Um, and what happens if you're, if you're human mechanics are flawed, you end up with a dog that's focused at the wrong thing. So if the dog gets focused on the food, then they're going to be either focused on your face or on your bait pouch or wherever the cookies come from your pocket or whatever. So those are big mistakes that people, people make. And, um, the, the next thing is, this is part of mechanics is the delivery of the reinforcement, the delivery. So the dog, the people are, are taking the bait or the cookie from a pouch. And there's a delivery

path of from this pouch or from my pocket into that. So that delivery, the dog starts tracking the delivery. It doesn't matter where it ends up. They'll track the delivery. If they know it initiates here, then they'll start. Okay. I'm not going to look at your hand. Cause I got to find where that, oh, there it's coming from there all the time from there. They start tracking, um, the delivery path. Second and related to that is the placement of reinforcement. And if you followed my training, you know, I am so crazed about placement reinforcement. It goes back to, it was probably one of my biggest aha moments. The first time I heard Marion, Dr. Marion Bailey, um, lecture way back in the nineties. And it was like that, that, that, that makes all the difference in the world. So the placement of the reinforcement, you'll notice that my, my delivery comes from above and the placement is in my hand. And if I drop it, I'll give my dog a search cue. But even if I bring the cookies from the side, you saw momentum kind of went, oh, nevermind. And just kept focusing on her job. So the placement and the delivery of reinforcement are what creates the side eye looking or dogs touching the side of their face to your nose. They're not looking there because they want to track, um, the, the, the, the rewards coming in. Um, another human mechanics problem is you get a dog who's maybe not a little less confident. And instead of letting the dog come in and touch your hand, people think they're being helpful. So the dog's getting slower, maybe not going all the way and they bring their hand to the dog's face. And what that does is the dog backs off more because they don't know when it's coming there. They're no longer in control of the behavior of, I will touch your nose, because as they get close, you facilitate that. And so then you've changed the behavior from come and press your nose into my face to come and let me smack you in the nose. So, and that often creates a, um, a very tentative touch for the dog. And some of them actually end up not touching at all. Um, another thing that you'll notice that with momentum, I didn't use any kind of cue at all. The hand is the cue with profit. I have added a cue. What the problem is when people add the cue and so often it's added, it's the first time the dog touches, come touch, touch, touch, touch, touch. The dog doesn't have a clue what they're doing. And so you get all the garbage behaviors of looking and sniffing and tracking the cookie gets wrapped up into the word touch. Um, and so they teach, they, they add the cue too early and they use the cue

inappropriately and that they're chaining behaviors. They never want to see repeated again. So the dog is like, they call the dog and the dog doesn't come. And so then they say, come touch. So the dog now is, um, is getting reinforced for sniffing. So you're chaining the come touch. The cue come touch is reinforcing what the dog's doing at the time of the, uh, the hear, they hear it. Okay. There's a question over on Instagram. Please clarify the delivery of the reinforcement. So two things that I separated out placement and delivery placement and reinforcement is where the dog gets the reinforcement from. Does it contribute to them wanting to continue to touch? So if you are training my nice, happy golden retriever here and they let's, I don't have a third hand, but let's say they touched your hand and then the, the, the placement of reinforcement was this hand puts it in this dog's mouth while what's going to become important to this dog. It's this hand, the delivery of the reinforcement isn't where it ends up. It's the path from where it starts to where like it's two separate things, delivery and placement. So the placement is getting the dog to just, catch on the end of the path. But the, the delivery is, oh, it's initiating in your pocket. Oh, you're digging deep in your pocket. Something good must be happening in that pocket. And that's when you get dogs that get all excited about you reaching into their pocket, into your pockets, because the dogs don't have pockets because then they'd be kangaroos, right? Okay. So those are, I mean, there's so many other things that are, um, that, that, that create this tentative sloppy looking at you nose touch, but you can clean that all up in the, the very detailed way. The way we teach the nose target is very different than the way anybody else teaches it. And so you will see how all of the layers that we put in and break down the teaching of it. Um, it it's, it's in the masterclass, a hundred percent free. You'll see how you will get what we get. All right. And so it's all, um, um, I'll, I'll share with, share you with that link at the end of, uh, the live here. Okay. Okay. Where do I use it now in the live, the, the video we put in there today on sports in particular, I put in 10 behaviors that I've used the nose touch target touch to start growing. It's a target, right? Like it is a target. So it can be a target that helps grow other targets like a chin rest. So that I use it for, for fitness. So chin rest is an obvious one. Another one is, let me just do a

little demo again with profit. Um, okay. I'll have to change my camera setting and go to there and my audio. Okay. So I'm going to give you two examples, three, I'll give you three fitness examples. What the boy. So nose target turns to chin rest where I can step, step, step. So then I can also use it sit for fitness, warm up, getting him to just warm up his back end. Also for stationing. So if I was doing an exercise like, come here, buddy. If I was doing an exercise like that, I can use the hand target as a reset. So if he's back there, he's eating his cookie and I don't want him to sniff. He'll come and look at me, bump, boom, cookie. So it's a stationing telling him where we're going to start initiate our, our next round of behavior from. So there's three little examples. Oh, okay. I didn't change my mic. So I'm not going to go into every single example. Oh, where we go. I'm not going to go into every single exam, demonstrate every single thing because it's all over there on the, hold on. Mike is gone again. Yeah. I'm not going to demonstrate every single behavior because it's in the masterclass. You can just go over there and see it. But I have the categories of pet dog training. So teaching a hand target is engaging and it's a great relationship building, but you can also use it for distractions, right? So get the dog focused back on you when they are in an environment with a lot of distractions. It's a great first discrimination. So this is great for the sports because dog sports is all about discrimination. It's not a tunnel. It's a A-frame. It's not a, you know, get it. It's a sit. So it's a great first discrimination. So it's also great for pet dog training, for teaching them to get in by your side, what we call reinforcement zone. So there's a lot of things that, and I'll teach you how to do that in that masterclass, including how it becomes an integral part of your retrieve. Okay. The retrieve behavior. And then there's things like lining the dog up at the start line and agility. I like to use it for a way to get my dog. It's part of the bringing my dog in on same side turns, or you teach your dog a tight turn. There's two different things we use with a hand target that you can teach a tight turn, teach your dog to bypass obstacles using hand targets. Obviously, right? Maybe not so obvious, but those of you who do this, who have taught your dog to stop contact, we use a nose target to start that stop contact behavior. So many things, obviously in, in obedience, the head position, I start that from hand targets as well as stand things like that.

Okay. Do you have questions for me, Kim? Okay. So can't get a firm touch, can't get a sustained touch, getting the side of the muzzle, getting my dog licking, all of these things we go over in the masterclass. So I'm going to find my, there we go. Cause it's my birthday, dogsat.com forward slash party. So that's where you can join the masterclass. Getting an open mouth, getting frustrated, nibbles, all of these. I mean, they're all things that the, if you have a more intention on the layers of learning, it eliminates that. Okay. I'm looking to see. Yeah. Debbie said, it's funny because Kim and I were talking about it every once in a while, we all do it. We all find ourselves moving the hand towards the nose. We think we're helping the dog out and we're actually backing them off even more. Yeah. So a lot of the times the problems happen when you don't realize what's going on there with the dog and that they are facilitating, they're getting the reinforcement in a way that prevents them from giving you a really good nose touch next. And remember the nose, a focused firm, continuous touch, nose touch will give you the foundation to do so many other things. But if this is sloppy and broken, it's just going to frustrate you all the way through. And it's, and it's actually going to prevent you from building some of these things that I spoke about. So that's why you really want to get a good beginning nose touch. That's what's in the masterclass. But then I show you how I use it for teaching retreat, how I use it for getting my dog into reinforcement zone for a start line or for obedience healing. And then there's another video on all the different sports that we use it for. Okay. Any other questions before I sign off? I really want you guys to join the hand target. I mean, I don't know why nobody has had an entire focus masterclass on hand targets before, because it's just so important, such a fundamental part of dog training. And it's so often done so poorly. Okay. We're going to give away a prize. Giving away a prize. Question. If you have introduced the word touch and now realize we have a sloppy touch, would you start again? Yes. Debbie, for, I don't know, 30 years, I taught on nose target with no cue. There were many dogs who lived and died in my household that their only cue was the presentation of the hand. And I always would tell my students, listen, we want them to touch your hand. It's not like we're going to put our hands somewhere else and send them to it. So there's no need for a cue. If you have a cue, you end up using it incorrectly.

So to start again, go to the masterclass and just stop using any form of a cue, hold back, let your dog figure things out in the, in the layers that we've put in there for you. And you're going to get a much nicer target. If you want to add a cue, I explain how you can do that as well, but definitely change that cue. I went to a cue with Profit because, well, and I, and I now realize it's been great for him. As long as you resist the urge to use it, when you shouldn't be using it, when you're creating a behavior chain. So I like the cue because it can tell, tell him at a distance, I'd like for something to, to come in, to come into me, like the backup, like I showed you also, if he gets, it's a great discrimination. If I, oh, let me do one little demo, one more little demo for you. Okay. And here I have to change my mic and I know sometimes I don't do it perfectly. So the audio gets a little crappy. Let me try, I hope I'm getting it right now. I think that's, I think that's my problem. Okay. Okay. So I'm going to just do a little bit, what, what, what? Oh, okay. You can go. So let's say, men, you have a top. Can you make sure that I'm going to do something like this? Give me one of those. So if I was going to do, can you see the toy on the ground? Yeah. I can see your settings. Bring me. So let's say I'm going to do, I want my dog to discriminate between get the cook, get the toy and mine. Put cookies in there. Mr. I, I, they're not for you right now. Close. So I can do this with a toy or with a cookie. Close. Good. So he, I can tell him lock, lock, chow. Good boy. Come here, bud. Good. Sit. So I'm going to put a bunch of cookies in there. Perfect. Put a bunch of cookies in there. Close. I'll tell him to lock on them. Close. And the expectation is he's going to get them. Lock, chow. Lock, chow. Yay. Straight. Good boy. Chow. Good boy. Chow. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. Good boy. So he's showing great discrimination between those behaviors. Okay. So we can use that as a family pet because the dog, we want them to understand the difference between sit and down. We want them to understand you're focused on the dog across the street. Now I want you to be focused on my hand. Now I want you to be focused on whatever. So you want them to understand different cues mean different things as a family pet, but as somebody who does dog sports with your dog, it's even more important. Okay. So all of those things are things that you're going to use

or you're going to learn about in the, in the masterclass. Chow. Chow is the word that means you can eat the food from the bowl. Search means you can take food from the floor. Lock means focus on it. It doesn't mean you can have it. How and when do you use a clicker for a hand target? I absolutely do not use a clicker for a hand target. Number one, you don't have that many hands. This one is a target. And this one holds the clicker. What's delivering the cookies? That becomes awkward. Number two, that is very discreet. It means what you are doing at this moment is correct. So then when was the dog correct, where they correct when they did that, where they correct when, because if you click, when they do that, guess what you're going to get, you're going to get a dog who comes in and just holds. So there's no need to add complexity to a behavior that's super simple. So I would not, I can't think of any reason, any benefit to using a clicker. Speaking of clickers, what do you think of these ones? Oh, Susan, that's so nice. I'm going to give away a few of those today. I'm in different pretty colors. I don't know why that can't focus on that, but it's having a hard time focusing. This is the same thing as this does. Okay. I'm going to give away a few of those today too. So lock is for focus and chow is for getting it. Why not say get it? Because get it can mean a toy. It can be chow only means food. So if I put a toy beside the bowl, then how would my dog differentiate between getting the food and the toy if I said, get it? So it's just a way for him to understand it is just the food. Okay. We have a bit of a Kuchenstein sighting right now. What are you doing with my toy, man? Kuk. Kuchenstein. Can I have it? Kuchenstein. Thank you. Oh, right in there. Right. You didn't quite get it to my hand. Search. You were really good, man. There was a cookie right under your nose and you didn't go steal it. That's awesome. Okay. We are signing off, but before I go, we are, oh, two, we have another question? Oh, do I? Can you go over when a word is necessary to give a treat? How, oh, you don't always, I say, cook, doing hand targets, you fade it now. I don't, with a young puppy, I probably would say cook most of the time, but with hand targets, the cookies are falling right in front of their face. They can't take them off the ground, but I do it so fast after every nose touch, I drop a cookie, then they can eat it when it's in the hand. Cause it's in the hand, right in front of their face in rhythm. Great question. That was an excellent

question. Unfortunately, some of my guys don't keep touching it or they keep pressing the palm of my hand. Again, I'm trying to reteach it. Watch the masterclass and I sure you will have more clarity then how we're going to get that to happen. Okay. So I am going to sign off, but before I do, we're going to have a gem. Oh, we've got another question. There's going to be a gem post on my Facebook page and post. If you got any aha moments from this live, if there's something that you were like, Oh my gosh, I never considered that. Then I would like you to jump over to the gem post and leave it. We're going to pick three, three gems. And we're going to send you a be kind dogs, that clicker. That's what we're going to do. I just decided that seeing there sitting at brand new clickers sitting on my desk. Um, okay. Another question. How many times a day should I do these games? Relationship building games are fun for the dogs. I, I think it's really important that you don't only play the same one over and over and over again. And that's why recall is we have 40, 41 games. I think technically 40 games in there that we eventually you get to a place where throughout the day, you might be playing all of them at different times. So I don't think you can play relationship games too. Well, you probably could play them too much because you might get a dog that thinks you're going to entertain them every waking moment of their life. So, um, I would say playing, doing three to five sessions of hand targeting is, you know, and you're only going to do it for a couple of minutes at a time is not a problem, but it's not necessary to do it that often. The dog will learn if you can only get to it once a day. Okay. Thank you guys for being here. Be sure to jump over to our page, but most importantly, be sure to jump into the masterclass. It's only going to be available. I believe until, oh, I'm, I'm within the next week. I don't actually know the date that is not, it's not going to be around any longer. Okay. Jump over to the masterclass, but please leave your gem. I personally love, love, love reading all your gems. We're going to pick three, send you all clicker. Okay. Thanks.