Hi Guys,
           young Vic loves his clicker and he has learned a lot of cute things this way, and some useful stuff like 'fetch that'. He's pretty good at tidying his toys into a box and I would really like for him to do that washing machine thing that assistance dogs do, I've looked and looked but this time google is not my friend, can anyone explain the steps I need to work through with him? Please

Boo, does no one know the answer to this? I'm sure there was a thread on this last year but I couldn't find it when I looked

If you've already taught hime to tidy toys into a box then you need to use the same principles to teach him to put laundry into a washing machine - if he's already ahppy pickking up objects it really shouldn't be that hard.  Make sure you break it down into smal sections so that he doesn't get confused and teach him one bit at a time until he is really confident with it till you move on.

a couple of clips from youtube that should give you an ideas but like I say you are just adapting stuff he already knows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U31V4maVjg8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dqd4YgZL0k

This ones fab - I expect the deep drawer was used to prevent the little lad from keeping taking out the bit he had put back in, so it was an easy way of encouraging him to go back to the basket - very sweet

Here's one I didn't watch all the way through, as was getting a bit frustrated on Honeys behalf but it is a good example of things not being broken down into small enough steps so the dog wasn't getting rewarded enough and started getting a very confused and frustrated and then faffing and avoiding.  There was also far to much waffling from the woman before the dog had a clue what was expected of her which just added to her confusion - get the behaviour understood first and then add the cue for the dog to associate with the action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqeL6uZTK4

Hope these help

Yay! Thank you Off to watch those vids