2009 Finalist

Training Your Dog to Shut a Door Using Targeting

by Donna Hill

Summary: Targeting is an easy foundation behavior to train any service dog and it’s fun! Follow this step by step training video to teach your dog to shut doors using targeting and clicker training. It took Jessie about 30 minutes of actual training time over several sessions to learn the basics, then more time to finalize the behavior.

The overall approach shows you how to introduce a cue once a behavior is learned, increase distance, fade the clicker and treats, and suggests ideas for generalizing the behavior to other doors and related tasks.

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