In dog training we often use the technique of luring to teach a new behaviour.

🤓 Luring meaning: guiding a dog into a desired position by holding a food treat in front of their noses. Then transitioning the luring hand motion into a hand signal, and finally adding a verbal cue.

And luring is a great technique, after all we all get lured every day by tempting marketing offers around us. And it works!

But if you are after a little dog training shortcut, you can simply capture behaviours you like your dog to repeat.

From puppy training to teaching your adult dog, you:

🐕 Choose an (unprompted/ natural) behaviour you’d like them to repeat - such as eye contact, coming to you, calmly settling by your feet, etc

❤️ Immediately mark and reinforce it.

☺️ Repeat this every time the behaviour happens (watch your dog putting two and two together…)

🗣️ Add a verbal cue to the equation: right before the behaviour is about to happen (mark/ treat).

🎉 Repeat and voilà, you have a new learnt behaviour