Teaching A Puppy To Shake Hands - Part 1 - Starring Sherlock

[@susandeslippe6449]

Sherlock is SO adorable! I just love him! Great training video and the outtakes are hysterical! We really look forward to your videos!

[@skokian1able]

Clever Sherlock! Soon he'll be shaking hands like an old pro! I love the giggles when he ran off in the bloopers 😂!

[@divadaedalus-1d2c]

Sherlock, you are adorable! I look forward to these videos that are such day brighteners and learning experiences. Thank you so much!

[@charlesTBear]

More outtakes Charlie!! ❤❤❤😂😂😂 And thank you for the instruction too. Sherlock is something else! So much energy… 🫠

[@danielapearls1491]

This is how I train without knowing if it was right or not I just taught myself!!!! Good to know someone else teaches thr same. Do the work for them then they get it themselves🥰Sherlock is adorable🐶❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@clivec10]

Great seeing Sherlock , the adorable pup learn and grow with so much love and positive reinforcement ❤

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Looking too cute with this little one!!😊😊😅

[@fionaforward3358]

He likes those treats.They are the most beautiful dogs.

[@tabithasmith6558]

Sherlock is doing well. Brought back memories of when I trained my old dogs to shake hands. I haven’t tried with my cavie as unlike my Jack Russells, who were calm, Louie is extremely excitable. I might try from tomorrow to train him. I will go and pick up some kanagaroo meat as this is very lean and cut it up to use as the treats. 🤞 it goes well.

[@janhankins911]

You have calm Jack Russells? I'd love to see video. I don't think I've ever seen one of those.

[@tabithasmith6558]

@ I sure do. My boy now is almost 13 and very gentle and submissive. My girl died which led to getting my cavie. Louie is gentle but definitely the boss in my house

[@tinabelanger8837]

❤❤❤🐶

[@pilarmontesfrechina1032]

Cuanto pelo tiene Sherlock , mi cavalier más joven tiene 10 meses y tiene mucho menos pelo que Sherlock😂😂😂😂 Un beso muy grande para los dos😘😘

[@chaskat35]

El crecimiento del pelaje es extremadamente variable. He visto cachorros de Cavalier que tienen un pelaje muy largo a los 6 meses y otros que son casi calvos a una edad más avanzada. Creo que el pelaje de Sherlock es promedio para un cachorro de su edad.

[@logirl1975]

Fantastic job Sherlock! You are so smart! I love how eager cavs are to learn new things.

[@francescrocker3878]

Smart Sherlock!

[@debbieturk8339]

Great job Sherlock. Such a quick learner 😊❤

[@carmaarmstrong9743]

Way to go Sherlock!

[@nancywalker2256]

Love these training videos, truthfully I love all the videos.

[@PamHaynes-oo3ck]

Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@dogie1070]

nicest dogs - so lovable

[@donnawhitfield6820]

Sherlock is doing great. Sandy my cockapoo picked up the command paw very quickly. She is normally like Sherlock excited all the time

[@annaritabarile4893]

Ciao Charlie, Annarita dall'Italia,🎉🎉🎉 felice di averti!Che ridere!Sai perché?Io non so parlare l' americano, ne l' inglese!Ma tutte le volte che tu addestrai i tuoi Cavalier, io imparo alcune parole, con una pronuncia perfetta!Che poi le ripeto in famiglia, e tutti scappiamo a ridere!Per me la lingua straniera è molto difficile da imparare!Tutti i miei corsi sono stati un fallimento 🙃! Adesso da quando ti ascolto, qualcosa l' ho imparata! Sicuramente le parole che pronunci spesso!Come bravo ragazzo o brava ragazza!😂😂😂 Grazie Charlie,tante grazie!❤

[@susandeslippe6449]

Charlie, so u ever train a group of Cavaliers, i.e. we have 2 close sisters. Is it best to train seperate, and will training 2 or more at a time be harder? Simple training, like shaking hands. Thanks, Sue

[@chaskat35]

My own practice has always been to train dogs individually, with just a few exceptions. If you want to pinpoint desired behavior, you can do that only with a single dog at a time. Exceptions are group activities, such as going out to potty first thing in the morning, or going into crates when it's dinner time.

[@susandeslippe6449]

@chaskat35 Thank you for the info. Yes, we do the group potty, feeding time, and bedtime.

[@1611_KJB]

Such a happy little guy. Love the blooper reels. I notice he jumped mod on you a lot, are you planning any videos on how to train him to stop jumping on you? While it's not such a big deal for cavaliers, I also have a couple of boxers, one of which is 85 pounds and once we pass 70 years of age, this is not such a good thing. Just curious if you have such training in mind. I would think it's bad for a show dog to be jumping on the judges.

[@janhankins911]

Here's a good way to teach a dog not to jump up. First, use management. If you know you're having guests to your home, put your dog on a leash (I suggest using a harness rather than a collar, especially in this instance when the dog is likely to want to pull on the leash and choke himself and run the risk of injuring his throat area). Or keep the dog in a separate room until he's a bit calmer (or until your guests are seated). Management is often temporary, once you train the dog what to do instead of jumping up, you'll probably not need management any longer (with some dogs, you will!). Next the training. Decide what you want your dog to do instead of jumping up. You could choose having your dog sit, you could choose something like "four on the floor" (all four paws have contact with the floor), or some other behavior. Teach that to the dog (you don't expect the dog to do that instead of jumping up if they don't know the behavior). Keep in mind your dog's age and physical abilities in choosing this behavior. Most people select "sit" (a dog cannot jump up on you if he's sitting), but some dogs (like dogs with a hip issue) may find sitting painful or uncomfortable, so don't use it for those dogs. Once your dog knows this behavior, when you know he's likely to jump up (like when you come in the door or a visitor comes to your home), give the dog the cue. If they perform the cue, great! They get petted, talked to, given attention, and even given a good treat (or a toy). But don't expect your dog to do that at first!! Most dogs won't. So what do you do if your dog looks at you like "Sit? What's that? I've never heard that word before in my life!"? You pull out the "negative punishment" This is like grounding a teenager for coming home well after his or her curfew--you take away privileges such as talking to friends on the phone, playing video games, going to a party, etc. For a dog, you'd take away the "privilege" of being petted and being talked to. If the dog doesn't want to sit as you've asked, you turn your back and walk away if you need to. Don't touch the dog, don't talk to the dog (no need to scream "NO" or otherwise yell at the dog), don't even look at the dog. If you have to walk into another room and close the door in the dog's face, do it. You don't have to do that with most dogs. Try the greeting again. Doesn't take too log for the dog to figure out that to get what he wants (petting, attention, being talked to), he needs to do as you've asked. After a while, you won't have to cue the behavior any more. For this to work, you do need to enlist help from visitors. They need to pull the "silent treatment" with the dog, too. Simply explain that you are teaching your dog not to jump up on people and most of your friends and family will be happy to cooperate by turning their back and ignoring the dog. Don't expect service people (like your plumber) to do this, so perhaps simply keeping the dog on his leash (attached to a harness) or in another room is the best bet until the training has been accomplished. Hope that's helpful.

[@1611_KJB]

@@janhankins911 very, thank you for taking the time to write

[@janhankins911]

@@1611_KJB I hope it will help.

[@AnnaDemidchik]

Does it help to have another dog who's already trained in a trick "demonstrate" and get a treat?

[@janhankins911]

Short training sessions (no more than 5 minutes) is great advice! However, this is a very "old school" way of teaching the dog to shake hands (and most "modern" trainers wouldn't use this method). Why? This method involves grabbing a dog's paw. Some dogs do not like a human messing with their paw and grabbing it can get you bitten. I'm not speaking to Cavaliers (I can't imagine a Cavalier biting you because you've grabbed their paw), but to dogs "in general". A more modern way is to use shaping (like you did toward the end; you reinforce any approximation of "shake" which may start with moving the paw you want the to shake with) and using a "bridging stimulus" (fancy words for telling the dog "Yes! That's the correct behavior and that will earn you a yummy treat"). This bridging stimulus can be either a clicker, a verbal acknowledgement (you can use a word like "yes", or "great"), a sound (like a tongue click), a gesture (when working with deaf dogs, we often use a thumbs up gesture), or almost anything that you can use to immediately "mark" the behavior. Which I recommend is based on a lot of different factors--the person (some people have trouble manipulating the clicker--and yes, it does take practice!), the dog (some dogs are a little fearful of the clicker; I wouldn't expect dogs like Sherlock that are raised in a loving home and are well socialized to household noises to be afraid, but there are a whole lot of dogs out there who haven't had a great start in life like Sherlock has and you may have one of those dogs), and other factors. The clicker does have some advantages (I won't bore you with citing studies in the animal behavioral literature), but other things can be used as well. Once you "mark" the behavior you want, you give a yummy treat. And give the dog "the silent treatment". The dog has no idea what "shake" means and has no idea what you want. You wait until the dog gets the idea of what you want before you introduce the cue ("shake"). Again, I won't bore you with the studies in the behavioral literature that suggest this is the "way to go", but if you're interested, you can do a Google Scholar search. And don't repeat cues. Say the cue ("Shake") once and only once. Otherwise, the dog thinks "oh, the cue is 'shake, shake, shake, shake, shake'". That's one reason why you don't give the cue until the dog has a good idea of what you want them to do. But if you have a sweet Cavalier (like Sherlock), you can probably get away with the "old school" paw grab. But don't assume you can do that with every dog. We took in a Great Dane from an awful situation and if I'd have reached down and grabbed her paw, she'd have taken a chunk out of me. Not because she was an "aggressive" dog. Because she was afraid and she'd learned that they way to make people stop doing horrible things to you was to bite them. For her, a paw grab was a horrible thing (because in her past, someone grabbing her paw led to something bad or painful happening to her).

[@MyBigToes]

For rescues and reactive dogs I understand, but for puppies and dogs with no background there’s nothing wrong with it. You need to be able to go into the dogs ears, check their bite/brush, and hold their paws for just the basic routine maintenance of your dog. If going for the paw gets you bitten, then you’re responsible for training that out of them. How are they supposed to get their nails clipped? Because letting them grow out is painful for the dog and drugging them isn’t safe.