Consent training is often called cooperative care and it's something that I've included in my

dog training since the mid-90s, but I've called it the game on position. Now, this game-on

position could be in one of two distinctly different categories. One would be general

dog training where I've taught games like, It's Your Choice, or Crate Games, or do you want

to wear your head halter? All of these things require the dog to do something to tell me

they want to continue. Now, the other area is the area of health.

Where I've asked the dog to show me I have permission to do something like brush them or

brush their teeth or trim their nails. So two different areas, both involving my dog saying,

yes, we can do this or no, I don't really feel comfortable

with you doing that. So, these two categories of training, health and general training,

are covered by three distinctly different ways for my dog to show consent. The first one,

expressed consent. That's where the dog will show me by something they do that I have

permission to carry on with what I'm doing. For example, my dog will flop on her side,

put her head on the ground, and stay there telling me she's okay with me trimming her nails.

Expressed consent. The second area is implied consent. Now, that's where you might

pick up a set of keys and your dog starts dancing back and forth to the door,

knowing you're going out in the car. They might be like spinning and barking and singing

the songs of their people because they're so excited.

It's implied. They have consent. They're giving you consent to take them for a car ride.

Generally speaking, in anything I want my dog to do in any part of training,

I want them to show me implied consent. I want a dog to walk to the start line in agility showing me, as I talked about in episode

number four, their T EMP, that I know their body is saying, yes, I want to do agility.

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