When your dog offers a behaviour that you didn’t ask for but want to assign a name to, this is capturing a behaviour. I have found that this is the easiest thing to teach a dog, especially since it was them that showed you that they could do it in the first place. A few years ago I was teaching a dog to walk backwards a few steps. And the first thing that I was offered was a bunny hop. I thought that this was a fantastic behaviour to capture so I stopped what I was doing and asked for that same behaviour again, and I got it, over and over and over again. I called it “Giddy-up” and now he can Giddy-Up on command and all because it was what he thought I was asking for. Read More…