Someone asked in my comment sections how I model and teach the word help, so here’s a video, and I’ll explain what I’m doing here. Most buttons have the effect of recruiting attention, which is great. But in this instance, we want to teach recruitment of assistance. So I’m ostensibly setting up a little puzzle for him to solve. He solves it by recruiting my assistance to get the treat. You can use anything that’s motivating to your learner to teach this. Uh, I tried toys before this, and they weren’t sufficiently motivating in this moment. So we’re using treats here. I’m moving the button around to place it near the puzzle that he has to solve so that there’s a higher likelihood that he will have success. If you’re concerned that you’re with holding treats by doing this, by making him wait to press, you can just give him a treat on the floor and then pull one up high. Generally, the curiosity and the novelty of having something inaccessible will, uh, increase the likelihood that they will want to play the game. Experiential modeling like this generally comes together pretty quickly, and you can truly set this up in a million different ways. You can put a ball under the couch. You can put something outside the front door, put something in the refrigerator. You know, just use your creativity. Any ways in which you think your dog might want to recruit your assistance, you can set that Challenge up! And what’s actually reinforcing these moments is their ability to recruit your assistance. You wanna keep these sessions short and sweet so as not to burn out on whatever motivation you’re using, whether it’s treats or toys, etcetera. And you wanna move it around a lot, because the point is that they can recruit your assistance in any number of circumstances, not just when there’s a treat behind a door. This was our second session. Each of them was three minutes long. And about a week after this, at the cabin, 10 used his help button to recruit me to get a toy that was at the very bottom of the toy basket that he wanted. And he did this without demand. Barking hallelujah. Happy teaching, friends. And let me know if this was helpful.