As a side note, I have been working a lot with my own dog while I have been home and I have noticed how awesome a cue "touch" is. I just have to hold out my hand (which you have everywhere with you) and ask her for a touch and it is such a great distraction from other dogs or the chickens in the backyard. Even for dogs at home, it is such a cool cue to help distract and make sure the dogs focused on you rather than some other thing, my professor even suggested this to us in class. She trained her dog by putting peanut butter on her finger (I hold a treat in my hand to get the smell on it, so that my dog smells my hand), but really any way you can lure the dog to touch your hand with their nose works. Soon, you just start pairing it with the cue "touch" while fading the lure to your hand as quickly as possible, eventually they'll have it down!
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