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The Tricks & Training challenges thread has really motivated me, but I don't want to hijack. I'm just wondering how to differentiate between "Touch" with a paw, and "Touch" with a nose? Is that something that would be useful for more complicated tricks or will shaping and capturing the "Touch"...

I have a dog in whom I seem to have very effectively extinguished any paw targeting. I did this accidentally, in teaching "stay" -- by click-and-treating whenever she stopped mouthing and pawing at the treat in my hand. Now, she's very good at waiting and staring for a treat, which is what I...