Power Targeting for Any Training Goal - Video on Demand

Once purchased, this content is accessed through our Video on Demand platform. It may take up to 1 business day for your content to appear in your Video on Demand Library. If you prefer immediate access, you can purchase directly through Video on Demand. To ensure that guide dogs and service dogs assist disabled handlers most effectively, their behavior training requires great precision. Many guide and service dog behaviors are trained through nose-, chin-, paw-, and mouth- targeting skills. Precise body-part targeting results in service dog performance that is of maximum assistance to the handler and in skills that are very useful for training more behaviors. In many dog training scenarios, body-part targeting skills lack precision. This lack of precision limits the use of the targeting behaviors in training new behaviors (both simple and complex behaviors). In this Dem-OH!, esteemed trainer Michele Pouliot will share various ways to train higher-precision targeting behaviors for body