 dog stacking for dog show it's been actually over a year since our last video where I was trying to teach my dog to step on the steps tools and stand there we didn't really practice since quite frankly you guys could see the video the previous session is over a year ago but we finally signed up for dog show and I want to teach my dog how to stand properly how to stack and then obviously how to move so today I'm gonna show you the next kind of step where we at so if you remember in previous videos we pretty much just trained the dog to be still on the step tools and what I'm going to do next is that I need to have a command for every movement and so when I hand stack the dog I adjust his front and I say command step so I do step step the two front legs I say step when I adjust the rear legs I say stretch and I adjust them into position the proper position for the dog is when you look at it so it looks like two legs only so their shoulder and the hips they the legs should be parallel perpendicular to the ground and so when you put the show place the shoulder the leg has to be perpendicular to the ground and at the back the hook of the dog leg right here this has to be perpendicular also right there and so that's what we when you're stacking you can see if there is an angle and so you adjust so the dog is straight more or less I don't really worry too much about it right now I just want my dog to be comfortable when I hand stack him and I want him to learn the commands and why I want the commands is because potentially I'm hoping that he'll be able to stack himself in a free stack and I can adjust him with those commands so let's see how we do today so I'm gonna scoop him over a little bit and then I'm adjusting his front legs hey step good step good step good step good step don't move no don't move good step good step good boy stack stretch sorry stretch good stretch good stretch no and I'm holding him firmly by the collar so he won't move the loose position see him move no stretch no stretch stretch good stretch lean wait good boy lean wait good boy I tell him to lean so he moves forward a little bit to make sure his front is perpendicular and then I tell him to wait to freeze in the position then I reward lean lean good now no I don't want him to move his rear legs stretch stretch good stretch good stretch good stretch lean lean good wait yes lean lean lean wait yes good boy so I do a few minutes at a time and then I let him play a little bit because it's difficult for such an active dog to be still for a while and then we kind of play and then repeat play and repeat play and repeat several times and as you can see he he learned this pretty well at this point so he knows what I'm doing but more or less I want to be comfortable him I want him to be comfortable when I'm touching him and adjusting his body parts and I want him to learn once I adjust if he can't move it until he's released so that's the practice for now happy training