Step 1: Focus & Engagement (Start Here) · Paradigm K9 Dog Training

Step 1: Focus & Engagement (Start Here)

This is the first video in a new instructional series I’m building out for you guys.

The goal with this series is to walk you through the entire training process step by step — the same way we do it with dogs in our programs. If you follow this in order, you’ll have a clear roadmap from day one all the way to off-leash reliability.

We’re starting with Focus & Engagement, because nothing else matters if your dog isn’t tuned into you.

Before we ever teach commands like sit, down, or heel…we need the dog to:

Want to work with us
Understand that value comes from us
Start volunteering attention instead of being forced into it

In this video, I show you how to:

Build your dog’s expectation to eat from your hand
Start creating engagement through food
Get your dog offering focus on their own

This is the foundation for everything we’re going to build next.

Quick note: I planned to have this up Monday, but we lost power after that wind storm over the weekend. That said — moving forward, you can expect a new video in this series every Monday.

Next up: we’ll take this engagement and start turning it into luring and movement.

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