Do as I do: teaching dogs to imitate - amazing way to teach dog tricks

[@iamnotaprofessional5135]

My dog and I are currently working on learning this! I swear to god it improves communication tremendously!

[@jespb66]

I am so glad to find that someone has this same thinking : won’t it be a lot easier to teach your dog to ‘copy’ you so I just need to show our pup and he/she will do exactly as I did.

[@lisasternenkind6467]

My PTSD service dog in fact learned most actions by social learning over the years. As we spent 24/7 together and off course kept on interacting, we were very close. I suppose suicidal learning is easier when having a strong bond with your dog. We humans aren't supposed to talk so much with our dogs, like we would with small children, trainers tell us regularly. But I noticed especially with my service dog, that by saying what I was currently doubt, he also learnt a lot. For example I would say that I would be right back or that I would go into another room or that I would put on my shoes to go outside with him for his pee and poo walk. The latter always was "off duty time" for my dog, and I always wore a certain pair of shoes, as well as a certain jacket, on this occasion. So eventually, when I said we would go on his p&p walk, he would immediately get my p&p shoes, without me telling him to get them. He learned this by copying my behaviour with the shoes. I used to breed and train American Bulldogs and then also realized that they would literally copy us humans, some more than others. They all sat on the couch like humans, with one paw on the arm rest. And when they had to wait in the car, they would use the seats like us humans while waiting. One of them always sat on the driver's seat, and had his right paw on the clutch stick, while his leg front leg laid on the steering wheel. I also experienced then, that my dogs literally copied my children, when the kids were playing and the dogs wanted to play with them too. Dogs learn socially more than by intended training. Human children also learn more from copying their parents than from what they are being told. I have noticed along the years in my while life that dogs and human children are very much alike and that raising them also is quite similar. 😊 Actually raising children is nothing else but training them to become a decent and well-functioning adult in society. 😉

[@carynpinkston1939]

Watching a dog mimic their human is extremely cute!

[@dkk325]

This is so great!!!

[@i.am.OK.]

Wow, extremely impressive! I can see how this method is a great way to teach many different complex behaviours, amazing :)

[@cosmonation1840]

7:45 this woman is the only person I’ve ever heard call her dogs her “friends”- I’ve always called my dogs my friends- because they are. Lucky for me, they have no choice- they might decide they are too good for me.

[@imogenlloyd3365]

This is awesome, and really well explained. Just wondering, it said part way through the video that there would be an example training plan in the description which there isn't. Can you advise where I could find a training plan?

[@mollasima3251]

I'm looking for that too!

Awesome!!