[00:00:00] So we're going to teach your dog to scratch on a scratch board to wear his nails. Now you're going to need a board with some coarse sandpaper attached to it. Okay, can you just sit a moment? Sit, good boy. And we're going to start off with it just flat on the floor, just Allow them to investigate it.

That's fine. Good lad. And then what we're going to do, we're going to get an old towel. Oh, you're very good. And we're going to show the dog, come over here, putting a treat underneath it. Good. And they're going to move that towel to get the treat. Okay. And that's going to start the process of using their feet on the board to find the treats.

Hang on.[00:01:00] 

Good. Did you miss that one? Oh, it's in the towel. Good. Okay. Wait a minute. Can you sit? Good. So I'm going to wait. You're too keen. Wait, sit. Good. Wait. Okay. So we just really want them investigating with their paws so that they're pulling that towel off. And then as soon as they do, mark it with a treat. Mark it with a yes, so that they can get the treat.

Okay, so now once they get happy about actually scratching there good boy, you might want to can you just come off a second? You might want to start to hold it up at an angle so that you get a better scratch on the nail. Nice. That's very clever. [00:02:00] Now, like with Ding, you can probably see he's using his right paw much more.

So we need to then teach him to use this one as well.

[00:00:00] So I've already taught Ding to scratch his nails on a board, but now I've transferred it to a piece of guttering we've stuck, just with glue, some sandpaper inside of it. So then the curve is really going to help all four nails. So we've just simply transferred the skills that he learnt on his scratchboard onto the guttering.

Let me show you. Okay, ready? Okay. Okay.[00:01:00] 

Can you straighten up