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Your agility dog must learn how to follow your hands if they are going to be successful at going over jumps and through tunnels. You also have to teach your dog right and left so they know where to go after completing an obstacle or jump.
Teaching them to follow your hands is as simple as placing a treat in your hand and making the dog follow your hand. When the dog touches your hand, you click and give them a treat. Pretty soon, they’ll be eating out of your hands and learning to follow them, too.
To teach them right from left, they should already know how to jump. Set up 2 hurdles side by side at the lowest height or on the ground. Direct your dog with your hand to go over the jump and say “touch, over” as your doing it. When he does it, click and treat so he knows that’s what you want him to do. Once he’s mastered that, substitute the word “right” for “touch” but make sure he’s going over the right side when you do that.
Once he is doing the right side fairly well, teach him the same way to go over the left side. Start with “touch, over” and then substitute “left” for the word “over”. Every once in a while, you can say “right, over” to make sure he doesn’t forget about the right side command.
Once your dog is confident in the jumps, do both sides and mix them up, back and forth, until he learns to respond to the word “right” or “left”.
If your dog is having difficulty with learning these commands, you could break up each step in smaller increments by using a target stick. Use the same command and when your dog comes near the target stick, click and treat. Then, direct him over the hurdle using the target stick, click and treat. Once he puts these 2 together, combine them so you are only clicking once for him to perform the action and get the treat.
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