Category: Fun Stuff ¤
  Author: Wayne ? ¤
   Title: Shaping a Bow ¤

Just caught this post and thought it might be hopeful to post that the
stretch and yawn was how I established a "bow" with my lab.  Every morning
when I got out of bed she would come to greet me, and you guessed it
stretch and yawn.  So I started putting the clicker and an interactive toy,
beside the bed.  When I woke up we did the usual greeting with c&t, what
happened was the dog began stretching and yawning throughout the day, when
she normally wouldn't have, which gave me many more opportunities for c&t.
Soon she was just stretching and I began to reinforce only "bow" like
stretches, then she added a head to the floor on her own, we got it
predictably occurring and labeled it.  If I remember correctly this
happened in four days.

Wayne