If your dog loves to chew and you don’t want to get bitten or entangled by its teething ring, you will want to know how to train a dog to give paw to any person who enters its home. To be truthful, this is a little bit difficult for some breeds of dogs to train to because of there are more sensitive ones that don’t like their paws being touched. Try looking at the following two methods you could use to train a dog how to give a paw to any human who enters its home.
Clicker training is probably one of the most well-known dog training tricks that people use in dog training classes. This is because it doesn’t require you to say anything, the dog does it for you. Basically, the dog will follow whatever is told it to do, including giving the paw shake. The dog will do this by placing its paws flat on your hands. It will then shake its paws rhythmically until you tell it to stop.
The next dog training trick involves rewarding the dog when it gives the correct response. You will need treats to do this. The dog should learn what the right response is by consistently following the command. To train this, you will need treats such as cheese or chicken bones. You can even sprinkle some salt on them to make them taste better (make sure they are not already salty from the actual treat).
The third dog training trick involves training the dog to respond to your commands while standing on its lead. In order to do this, you will need a leash and treats. Stand near the dog until it shows signs of being submissive. Then, using the leash, give it a command to ‘shake it.’ Then, using the treat, give it the pleasure of a good shake.
Once you have taught the dog the command to shake it, you will want to focus on using treats for training. At first, you should simply feed treats in small amounts to the dog when you give the command. This will give the dog the impression that it gets something for doing nothing. After a while, you will begin to use bigger treats and then small treats. The larger the dog gets with treats, the more it will want to eat.
When the dog starts to get hungry, take an empty hand and give it treats whenever it shows signs of hunger. Then, when it becomes full, empty the empty hand and replace it with the treat. Do this repeatedly until the dog understands that to eat, it must empty its paw. Then, place the empty hand on the dog’s back. You should do this over again, until the dog understands that to empty its paws means that it has done something destructive. Do this repeatedly until the dog understands that it must always sit on the command ‘sit’.
Now that your dog understands what it means to sit, you can begin using the verbal command to ask him to ‘shake it.’ Begin by placing your index finger in front of the dog’s nose and saying ‘Shake it.’ As the dog looks up at you, repeat the command word followed by a brief treat as a signal to give it a treat. Do this over again until the dog shows signs of understanding the command. Then, begin asking the dog questions.
After a couple of days of consistent training, you will be able to start taking the paw out of your dog’s mouth on your own. Simply use the verbal command to tell your dog ‘Give it a treat,’ then quickly take the treat from its mouth and place it in its collar. Then return the treat to its original place and give your dog a verbal marker word and treat to reinforce the lesson.
