• A quiet room/place with little to no distractions 
• Some small tasty treats (optional)
• Clicker (optional)
• Praise and patience

How to:

1. Show your dog a treat, place it in your hand and make a fist.
2. Put your fist near to the ground, near your dogs feet.
3. Encourage your dog to paw at your hand, for example saying ‘get it’, ‘where is it’, ‘find it’.
4. As soon as your dog lifts their paw off the ground click/reward.
5. Before raising their paw they will likely sniff and lick at your hand, just ignore these actions and wait for the paw.
6. Repeat this a few times.
7. Now bring your hand up higher and when your dog paws your hand, click/reward
8. Again repeat this until your dog has the hang of it.
9. Now without a treat in hand, hand out, palm up, wait for your dog to paw your hand and click/reward, repeat.
10. Start to add in the command i.e ‘paw’, ‘left/right paw’, ‘hand’
11. continue to practice until they get the hang of it.

Important notes

• To start with you may need to be very patient, as your dog may just continue to lick and gnaw at your hand.
• Once your dog starts to understand what they need to do, don’t try and advance to fast. 
• Train in short bursts, as too much at once will cause disinterest and ineffective commands.

Any questions? Don’t hesitate to ask!

Ellen and Cali