So glad you liked it! I'd never seen it taught like that, so I thought it would make a fun video :) I think it's a bit more intuitive for the dog to keep their head low and drive towards the target!
I really like your simple step by step tutorials. My biggest frustration when training new tasks is figuring out those first steps from which to progress. Other than just being a cute trick, can you also include practical purposes for some of these movements? I have learned during our service dog group training sessions that there are tasks I didn't think we needed until someone explained real life applications I had not thought of. Or to teach tasks I don’t currently need but could very realistically need in the future. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy your videos.
This one is mostly a trick BUT! being able to crawl, for instance, under a chair or under your legs for down-and-under is very useful to be able to tuck your service dog out of the way!
I used 'sneak' as the cue word for my Beagle (she has since passed), my chihuahua has not learned 'sneak' because of his knees, I think it would be tough on him. But we LOVE you and your videos!
Look at you go!! I thought my dog was just stubborn but all it took was one time and one adjustment....one time!! I'm so proud of my boy!👉🏾🐕👍🏾 Thank you for keeping it simple and to the point. New subscriber for sure!
I'm helping a friend who's doing a canine conditioning course and one of the exercises is to get your dog crawling laterally. Like a side step but in the crawl position. We both have no idea how to train this. I can't find any videos of it on youtube and wondered if it's something that's possible at all. Sorry if it's not the done thing to send a tutorial request but love to see a video showing it :D
Hey Emily! This sounds like a really advanced skill for a conditioning course. I’m assuming this is not a beginner level course. I have some ideas on how I would teach it (training the forward crawl first and then using a nose target slightly to the side and shaping it.) but honestly, I’d be asking the instructor as this seems like a higher level skill that should be trained with professional guidance.
@@DoggyU Hi, yes it is in the advanced part of the course. I am her case study (well my dog is) as she's doing the medical course to become a canine conditioning practitioner. We have completed the beginner and intermediate levels already. The course is focused around the medical side of things and so the dog training elements of the harder exercises have us stumped. We have reached out to the person who is teaching her and are waiting on any tips they have, I wanted to see if there were any tutorials on youtube. I have tried something similar to what you describe above with a nose target (and I tried with a lure too to start shaping) slightly to the side but she is pivoting her front legs towards the direction I want her to go and I'm struggling to get any lateral movement in her back legs whilst in the down position. If there was just a little I could mark and reward and hopefully she would increase frequency but am struggling with getting anything to mark. Trying in multiple spaces including a long hallway so she doesn't creep forward. Said dog already knows a crawl forwards and also does lateral steps/trot/canter when in the stand position.
@@emilydavies7419 i had a thought - does she have a single rear leg target (the kind you teach if you're trying to train the dog to "pee" on a fire hydrant as a trick)? You could train that really strong, and then teach the dog to reach that back leg over to a target. It just seems really awkward to me. I don't think I've ever seen it done. I would also think if the dog had strong abs, you could do a front foot board and a back foot board, but the dog would have to be seriously fit.
Hi! Laura, today Mr Cooper and I practice "the Crawl" & we made It!!!. Using method #2 but It will be better if I change to method #3 'cause my back hurts a lot. By the way the verbal clue I used was crawl. Saludos desde Monterrey, México.
HA. You’ve gone and done it AGAIN! You’re so sneaky, Dean Laura, the way you pack in a whole mini-course in every trick tutorial! But we’re onto you!! We see how you wrap every R+ element and skill into a concise & bubbly sound bite-and with no outline, flow chart or quiz in sight! (Boring NOT!) Your style of “learn-and-try”-love it! Stuck? Just re-watch the vid: it’s in there! “Crawl” trick gone FUBAR? Take a walk, go play, then re-watch & try again later-or move onto a different trick, and come back to this one another day. That’s what we do anyway! And, bit by bit, we feel our skills grow. Recently one of your vids mentioned smearing a little food smell onto a target, and delivering the treat at the target. I knew that! It worked for “paint,” and “close-the-door,” but somehow I forgot all about it in teaching the ring toss, which is what we’re working on now. I’ve started doing this for targeting the stick, and now things are progressing quicker! THANKS YET AGAIN, YOU!! 🎉😅❤
I have been training dogs my whole life, it's always been my plan B. And now, it's been promoted to plan A. I am wondering do you have a "how to get certified" video. I have so far only found a therapy dog certification test in my area, but not obedience, agility, trick training, or service animal training, the latter being my biggest interest, as I am working on getting a dog for my autistic child who needs emotional support, dpt, and some specific health related warnings. I want to make sure that once trained, no one can hold self training against us, as I've been training/showing dogs since I could walk. I guess I'm just scared of the people who are hostile to service animal owners. It's not as if I refuse to educate myself, I am just struggling to find certification courses.
Service dogs in the US are not required to be certified. If you're heading down the path to training a service dog, I highly recommend you take my Service Dog 101 course which will not only teach you the various US laws that apply to service dogs (so that you know your rights) but also how to handle access issues, best practices and etiquette, how to choose a service dog, and so much more! You can find that here: courses.doggyu.com/p/service-dog-101 If you're looking to learn more about the testing pathway I use for service dogs, this video should be helpful: th-cam.com/video/3T8Ej_UEK0Y/w-d-xo.html
I do not recommend them for service work. I didn’t train whip until she was an adult, she was not intended for service work, and I got lucky. That being said, she will be retiring young and I’ll be getting a more traditional and more suitable breed for my next prospect later this year.
Huh. I normally use my hand for targets, but it can get confusing because it also is used for "cinco" as well. The flag is an interesting idea. I only have blue painters tape, but dogs see blue well anyway. I'll probably end up using either "sigilo", "furtivo", or "robar". So stealth, sneak, or steal. As crawl is "gatear" and way too many syllables. Probably go with steal, as it's only 2 syllables. Plus that's absolute comedy gold when it comes to the context of the command 😂.
@@DoggyU Actually just started working with him with the flag (definitely need something longer than a plastic butter knife as he keeps wanting to touch my hand as usual) but I managed to use the flag to get him to touch one of those dog speech buttons I put on the wall. Batteries aren't in it, but I felt like it was good training for a service task, as it mimics having to boop an actual button, over a square of tape on the wall 😅.
I love your method to teaching crawl. So much easier than what I usually do.
So glad you liked it! I'd never seen it taught like that, so I thought it would make a fun video :) I think it's a bit more intuitive for the dog to keep their head low and drive towards the target!
I really like your simple step by step tutorials. My biggest frustration when training new tasks is figuring out those first steps from which to progress. Other than just being a cute trick, can you also include practical purposes for some of these movements? I have learned during our service dog group training sessions that there are tasks I didn't think we needed until someone explained real life applications I had not thought of. Or to teach tasks I don’t currently need but could very realistically need in the future. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy your videos.
This one is mostly a trick BUT! being able to crawl, for instance, under a chair or under your legs for down-and-under is very useful to be able to tuck your service dog out of the way!
down and under video: th-cam.com/video/2rqKjSJ8XmY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=3fdSHF_IraAVHhdf
Great video. Our verbal cue is ‘dust’ as in dust the floor
Hahah I love that!! That's seriously creative!
I used 'sneak' as the cue word for my Beagle (she has since passed), my chihuahua has not learned 'sneak' because of his knees, I think it would be tough on him. But we LOVE you and your videos!
Thank you Cheryl! 💜
I love your video thank you so much for this video it is extremely helpful!!! I looove dogs and enjoy helping and loving them
Love you Laura , you are so upbeat
Look at you go!! I thought my dog was just stubborn but all it took was one time and one adjustment....one time!! I'm so proud of my boy!👉🏾🐕👍🏾
Thank you for keeping it simple and to the point. New subscriber for sure!
I'm so glad that these methods work for you! Sometimes we just need a new way to explain it to our dogs :)
My verbal command is boot scoot
❤ love the different methods for training this😊
Thank you!
Great video Laura. Well done. 🙏
Thanks Jose!
Thanks Laura!
You are so welcome!
I'm helping a friend who's doing a canine conditioning course and one of the exercises is to get your dog crawling laterally. Like a side step but in the crawl position. We both have no idea how to train this. I can't find any videos of it on youtube and wondered if it's something that's possible at all. Sorry if it's not the done thing to send a tutorial request but love to see a video showing it :D
Hey Emily! This sounds like a really advanced skill for a conditioning course. I’m assuming this is not a beginner level course. I have some ideas on how I would teach it (training the forward crawl first and then using a nose target slightly to the side and shaping it.) but honestly, I’d be asking the instructor as this seems like a higher level skill that should be trained with professional guidance.
@@DoggyU Hi, yes it is in the advanced part of the course. I am her case study (well my dog is) as she's doing the medical course to become a canine conditioning practitioner. We have completed the beginner and intermediate levels already. The course is focused around the medical side of things and so the dog training elements of the harder exercises have us stumped. We have reached out to the person who is teaching her and are waiting on any tips they have, I wanted to see if there were any tutorials on youtube.
I have tried something similar to what you describe above with a nose target (and I tried with a lure too to start shaping) slightly to the side but she is pivoting her front legs towards the direction I want her to go and I'm struggling to get any lateral movement in her back legs whilst in the down position. If there was just a little I could mark and reward and hopefully she would increase frequency but am struggling with getting anything to mark. Trying in multiple spaces including a long hallway so she doesn't creep forward.
Said dog already knows a crawl forwards and also does lateral steps/trot/canter when in the stand position.
@@emilydavies7419 i had a thought - does she have a single rear leg target (the kind you teach if you're trying to train the dog to "pee" on a fire hydrant as a trick)? You could train that really strong, and then teach the dog to reach that back leg over to a target. It just seems really awkward to me. I don't think I've ever seen it done. I would also think if the dog had strong abs, you could do a front foot board and a back foot board, but the dog would have to be seriously fit.
do you have any suggestions for helping dogs with tail awareness?
Hi! Laura, today Mr Cooper and I practice "the Crawl" & we made It!!!. Using method #2 but It will be better if I change to method #3 'cause my back hurts a lot. By the way the verbal clue I used was crawl. Saludos desde Monterrey, México.
Love it!
This is so interesting! I’ll try this on my dog.
Let us know how it goes! :)
Adorable! Love it
Thank you! 😊
hey, I can do the foot thing!!!! thank so much!!!
So glad this works for you!
Thanks! 🙂
Thanks for taking the time to comment!
HA. You’ve gone and done it AGAIN! You’re so sneaky, Dean Laura, the way you pack in a whole mini-course in every trick tutorial! But we’re onto you!! We see how you wrap every R+ element and skill into a concise & bubbly sound bite-and with no outline, flow chart or quiz in sight! (Boring NOT!) Your style of “learn-and-try”-love it! Stuck? Just re-watch the vid: it’s in there! “Crawl” trick gone FUBAR? Take a walk, go play, then re-watch & try again later-or move onto a different trick, and come back to this one another day. That’s what we do anyway! And, bit by bit, we feel our skills grow.
Recently one of your vids mentioned smearing a little food smell onto a target, and delivering the treat at the target. I knew that! It worked for “paint,” and “close-the-door,” but somehow I forgot all about it in teaching the ring toss, which is what we’re working on now. I’ve started doing this for targeting the stick, and now things are progressing quicker! THANKS YET AGAIN, YOU!! 🎉😅❤
*sneaky sneaky ... * 😂
In one of your videos I saw a GoPro mounted on the dog, do recommend this for the average assistant dog team?
I do not. I only was doing that for video purposes so I could record guide work from the guide's point of view. I don't use one regularly :)
I have been training dogs my whole life, it's always been my plan B. And now, it's been promoted to plan A. I am wondering do you have a "how to get certified" video. I have so far only found a therapy dog certification test in my area, but not obedience, agility, trick training, or service animal training, the latter being my biggest interest, as I am working on getting a dog for my autistic child who needs emotional support, dpt, and some specific health related warnings. I want to make sure that once trained, no one can hold self training against us, as I've been training/showing dogs since I could walk.
I guess I'm just scared of the people who are hostile to service animal owners. It's not as if I refuse to educate myself, I am just struggling to find certification courses.
Service dogs in the US are not required to be certified. If you're heading down the path to training a service dog, I highly recommend you take my Service Dog 101 course which will not only teach you the various US laws that apply to service dogs (so that you know your rights) but also how to handle access issues, best practices and etiquette, how to choose a service dog, and so much more! You can find that here: courses.doggyu.com/p/service-dog-101
If you're looking to learn more about the testing pathway I use for service dogs, this video should be helpful: th-cam.com/video/3T8Ej_UEK0Y/w-d-xo.html
do you recommend koolies as service dogs?
I do not recommend them for service work. I didn’t train whip until she was an adult, she was not intended for service work, and I got lucky. That being said, she will be retiring young and I’ll be getting a more traditional and more suitable breed for my next prospect later this year.
Huh. I normally use my hand for targets, but it can get confusing because it also is used for "cinco" as well. The flag is an interesting idea. I only have blue painters tape, but dogs see blue well anyway. I'll probably end up using either "sigilo", "furtivo", or "robar". So stealth, sneak, or steal. As crawl is "gatear" and way too many syllables. Probably go with steal, as it's only 2 syllables. Plus that's absolute comedy gold when it comes to the context of the command 😂.
I love sneak or steel! Brilliant!
@@DoggyU Actually just started working with him with the flag (definitely need something longer than a plastic butter knife as he keeps wanting to touch my hand as usual) but I managed to use the flag to get him to touch one of those dog speech buttons I put on the wall. Batteries aren't in it, but I felt like it was good training for a service task, as it mimics having to boop an actual button, over a square of tape on the wall 😅.