I've got a five-step process and the six step is actually getting them out into a swim,

but five steps to get conditioned to put controls in place that for the crazy dogs that

like to swim, we're going to add some criteria to that behavior.

And for the dogs who are a little bit worried, we're going to give you five steps that you can teach your dog to love water. Step number one, you need to buy yourself one of those plastic kitty pools. Now, you could start with this in your living room. I do it outside, but you have at it if you want to do it in your living. Because all we want to do is shape the dog to jump in, throw some cookies in the pool once they're in, tell them search, they eat the cookies, they jump out, give them a lower value cookie when they jump out. That's all that we want in step one that they go, well, I don't know why you want me in here. There's no water in here, guys. Remember, this is your living room. No water. It's an empty pool. You might want to put a rock in the middle. I like to put a rock in the middle. It's more on that later, especially if it's outside, it won't blow away, but I use it for the training. Okay, jump in, get cookies. If your dog likes to tug, we can tug when they're in there and we're just shaping

them to get in and get out. All right? Once that's going tickety-boo, I want you to add a name

and three different behaviors. So, I just tell my dogs, go get in, which I think is really a lame

name. I, last week I had a student here and I suggested she used the cue, Dunkeroo.

Dunkeroo doesn't sound anything like anything else we use. So, it's very specific. Go and jump

into the water. Okay? Even though there's no water right now. I get it. There's no water.

Eventually Dunkeroo is really going to mean water.

What? Dunkeroo! So, beautiful. So no water. Eventually, Dunkaroo is really going to mean water. What?

So, beautiful.

So, step one is just shaping. Step two, adding a cue, which means you're going to walk

around the pool and you're going to give your dogs cookies on the outside. So the pools on

the inside, the dogs on the outside, you're just going to give them cookies for not jumping across and going in the pool. And if they go, wait, there's better cookies on the inside, just get further away and then stop, ask them sit, and then give them the cue so that they can jump in and get more cookies. Eventually, you want to be able to walk with the dog on the inside so that they're closer to the pool. Now, some dogs might jump in and jump out, kind of like musical chairs. Like, is it now you want me to do this? Do I jump in there now? We want the dog to not jump in until you give them their cue. And it's very, very clear. Empty pool, there's nothing driving them crazy saying, oh, I got to get in here

because look at all my friends are swimming. No, just an empty pool. You don't go in there until

I give you the cue. Now, for those of you who have dogs that are crazy, you might have to stay

at this step a little bit longer. Adding now three behaviors, sit down and spin. If your dog doesn't know how to spin, it's super

easy. You can go to the YouTube video that I have on Target training, or you could get super

simple, just put a cookie in your hand and use it as a lure. I want the dog to do those three

specific behaviors for number one, the sit, they're going to have the sensation eventually

of water on their butt. Ew, don't like that. And so that's the first introduction to,

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