How to Train a Dog to Fetch a Newspaper

Video Transcript

"Teaching your dog to retrieve the newspaper will be made much easier by having a dog who already knows how to retrieve and who also knows how to target something, so you can very easily teach your dog that this is the item, the newspaper, that you want them to target, and then asking them to retrieve it for you. And the beginning of that, again if your dog is clicker trained might be to ask them to touch the newspaper and pick it up. So if we throw it on the floor... and the dog shows interest in it...you want them to touch it with their mouth because you're going to ask them to pick it up. You don't want them to target it with their foot 'cause that's a confusing message. Then you can reward the touch of the newspaper and work up to picking the newspaper up and then placing it in your hand."