My dog doesn’t see the point of leg weaves

Previously we were training targeting using nose to hand so that we can use it to learn other things like eventually walking on two legs and leg weaving. Not very practical skills but it’s fun :P

Training standing on two legs

Do I get extra if I get creative and touch my chin to your fingers instead, human?
Or my paws to fingers?
Ok fine, so you want nose to fingers only.

Training Leg Weaves

I don’t wanna do the leg weaves anymore, human, no matter how your are waving your finger to get me to target through your legs. So I’m just gonna flop on the floor in protest.

And if my bum happens to land on your foot, I don’t care. 
See, this is my I-don’t-care face.
But I still want the treat… ….. …. how about I trade you a rollover?
I rollover long time, human. *wriggle wriggle*
Shit, why do I think this is a waste of time? 
Because the human doesn’t exactly want to reinforce behaviours I don’t want to encourage, so I can’t treat if I ask you to do a leg weave and you decide to rollover instead :P

Anyway, I guess Donna’s doing this from a combination of factors, she gets too bored of the treats and she wants to get the treats by doing the easy stuff that she already knows.

So I changed the treats after that…

The results?

Here’s a video of Donna doing the looping around my left and right legs.

leg weave from weliveinaflat on Vimeo.

Here’s a video of me awkwardly taking steps forward while Donna loops around my legs.

leg weaving stepping forwards from weliveinaflat on Vimeo.

It’s not smooth and I probably still have a ways before I can fade away the hand cues. But at least she does leg weaves now!! :P

For steps on how to train leg weaves, check out this Youtube video!