 Hi, I'm Richard Hines, and welcome to the dynamic and amazing world of touchpad training. So touchpad training has been around in animal training for hundreds of years. Starting with dancing bears on the street corner, you know, when somebody played a violin, they would dance on the street corner for money. Zoos use it, zoos use it, circuses for all animals, TV, movies, it is almost impossible to teach high level things for all entertainment performing animals without touchpad training. It is a critical skill for higher level learning, but touchpad training absolutely has a huge function in everyday life and for specialty things. And for zoos and aquariums, it's a big deal. Touchpad training is critical to their everyday life, not just for tricks, because that's what they use it for as well, but to take care of the animals, to have them go on an object to be examined, weighed, their nails done, their ear cleaned, medicine, right? It is a critical skill that all zoos and aquariums use to maintain their animals. I use touchpads for so many things, so here let me just give you a rundown quick of many ways and forms that I personally use touchpad training to create. We will start with service dog skills. Touching handicap buttons, lights on and off, shutting doors, good girl, and here you see this dog touch a water plate, but we also use it to touch an emergency button, 911 to call 911 for an owner if they have an emergency. So that water touch plate could just be replaced, like with this puppy here, with a 911 emergency button. Same thing, interchangeable, so the skill of going to touch that water plate, we just flip it to a 911 emergency button that's on the floor that the dog will hit and it's the same thing, so since they understand the skill to go touch the water plate, piece of cake to go touch the 911 button on command. Also use it for tightening up healing, for protection work, guard the object. So with touchpad training, the possibilities are endless what you can teach your dog. Again, you be creative, use your imagination, and you can create amazing things, whether it's real life scenarios, service dog things, protection things, high level tricks, whatever it is. If you teach your dog this foundation skill of touchpad training, the world is endless for you and your dog.