I would be lying to impress on you that I am THAT accomplished a trainer. If I was even half as good, Bun would have learned not to ram himself into the front door every time the doorbell rings! lol. But basically, training is training. You make a picture in your mind of what you want a dog's end behavior to be and then break up that behavior into the smallest of units and train each indivdiaully. So, instead of looking at the routine as whole -pick one behavior - for example bowing. So how does the dog learn to bow? Perhaps, there was a piece of food placed in front of it? Or perhaps a taget stick? It's a pretty easy thing to teach and yet, there it is, a component of a major more intricate performance. What training takes mostly is time and patience. |