WW612 Aug 16 - Duration Nose Touch: The Gateway to Stillness and Hold (Repeat)

Oftentimes, we need another behaviour to turn the lightbulb on and bridge the gap of understanding for our dogs. This is why I love a duration nose target! It's one of those behaviours that is simple but greatly underappreciated. Who would ever think the lowly duration nose touch could be your gateway breakthrough to teaching and transferring the concept of HOLD, otherwise known as STILLNESS, to other behaviours? In this workshop, you'll learn how to get a simple duration nose touch and how it can have a dramatic effect on your dog’s understanding and application of hold for other behaviours. Once our dogs understand the concept of holding position through a duration nose target, they very quickly learn to apply it to other behaviours. Get your duration nose touch, and the often pesky hard-to-get stillness behaviours you've been struggling with will begin to make sense to your dog.

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Oftentimes, we need another behaviour to turn the lightbulb on and bridge the gap of understanding for our dogs. This is why I love a duration nose target! It's one of those behaviours that is simple but greatly underappreciated. Who would ever think the lowly duration nose touch could be your gateway breakthrough to teaching and transferring the concept of HOLD, otherwise known as STILLNESS, to other behaviours? In this workshop, you'll learn how to get a simple duration nose touch and how it can have a dramatic effect on your dog’s understanding and application of hold for other behaviours. Once our dogs understand the concept of holding position through a duration nose target, they very quickly learn to apply it to other behaviours. Get your duration nose touch, and the often pesky hard-to-get stillness behaviours you've been struggling with will begin to make sense to your dog.

This is your chance to learn the secret and quick cheat method for obtaining that HOLD.

If you're having difficulty with HOLD STILL behaviours, the Nose Touch Hold may be what's missing.

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Heather Lawson (she/her) is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer - Knowledge Skills Assessed (CPDT-KSA) and also a Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner (KPA-CTP), a CGN evaluator and a free-style judge. She has been training dogs and their humans for more that 20 years after deciding that...

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