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Follow Jessie as she learns how to turn on a light switch in the house, and uses a chair to gain access. First we use shaping, then we put together a simple chain to get the final behavior. In just 250 clicks, she has a new skill she can add to her service dog tasks! Great trick to show your friends. We use positive training methods such as the clicker that are easy on the dog and the human trainer! This educational video is brought to you by Vancouver Island Assistance Dogs www.viassistancedogs.blogspot.com Our videos are now available for purchase on CD. See our blog for more details.
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Learn how to train your service dog to alert you to sounds (hearing alerts) and do diabetic and other medical alerts. Note the star (*) indicates when the clicker marks the behavior. Note that barking is not a behavior that is desirable for an alert behavior for assistance dogs. In public is is disruptful and is only used for emergencies to call attention to a person that needs help. Look for our two way alert video and check out a detailed ‘how to’ description on our blog: viassistancedogs.blogspot.com Provided to you by Vancouver Island Assistance Dogs. Nanaimo, BC

Teach your dog how to find and paw indicate a scent using this easy and fun game using materials you have at home. Shows you step by step how to chain two simple behaviors (sniff, paw) to create a new more complex behavior that gets a new cue. Great to develop your dog’s problem solving ability! Star (*) indicate clicker sound for dwaf/HOH. Look for our other educational videos and information at www.viassistancedogs.blogspot.com Videos now available for purchase! Brought to you by Vancouver Island Assistance Dogs. Helping owners train their own service dogs.

Discover simple techniques that experts use to reward their dog while training. Rewards can be treats, toys, your praise and attention and access to things dogs want. How and when they are delivered can be critical to your success as well! Closed cpationed for the hearing impaired and translations available to other languages through youtube! Look for our other educational videos and information at www.viassistancedogs.blogspot.com For Deaf and Hard of Hearing viewers, a star (*) has been placed in the middle of the screen to show the proper timing of clicker or verbal marker. Brought to you by Vancouver Island Assistance Dogs in Nanaimo, BC. Helping owners train their own service dogs.

Follow this step by step training video to finish teaching your dog to shut doors, put the behavior on cue, fade the use of the clicker/treats and generalize the behavior to doors anywhere! Find out what other assistance and service type tasks that you can teach the same way using clicker training! It’s easy and fun for you both! Almost any dog can do it! Brought to you by Vancouver Island Assistance Dogs. Our videos are now available for purchase on CD. See our blog at www.viassistancedogs.blogspot.com

Follow this step by step training video to teach your dog to shut doors using shaping and clicker or verbal marker training. It’s easy and fun for you both! Almost any dog can do it! This video (part 1& 2 combined) was a finalist in the Canis Film Festival 2009! Jessie took about 30 minutes of actual training time to learn the basics to the end of Part 1, then additional training (see Part 2) to add the cue, fade the clicker and treats, add distance and generalize. We use positive training and operant conditioning. This educational video is brought to you by Vancouver Island Assistance Dogs in Nanaimo, BC and are now available for purchase on CD. See our blog at www.viassistancedogs.blogspot.com

Follow Jessie’s actual progress during the first steps learning to turn on a light switch. In under 4 minutes (approx. 45 clicks), she has the main idea. Have you considered training your own assistance or service dog? Or trying out a new trick to impress friends? Clicker training is the best way I have found to successfully train almost any dog. I have been asked several times for footage of a dog learning a task or being shaped for the first time so new trainers could see the actual process and know what to expect. So here it is! Lots of repetition. Note she doesn’t get clicked for any behavior she offers that I don’t want later on such as pawing, stepping on or scratching the switch plate. The only editing was for slow periods where she scrambled for food, when I repositioned myself as I was uncomfortable or when I turned on and off the camera. Subscribe to our videos to be the first to see the whole process start to finish. (Coming soon). Enjoy this educational video brought to you by Vancouver Island Assistance Dogs! www.viassistancedogs.blogspot.com Our videos are now available for puchase on CD. See our blog above.