Is it possible to teach your dog to put away his toys? ?

Yes, it's actually rather easy. The easiest way to do it is through shaping by clicker training. Go to http://www.clickertraining.com/ and do some reading about clicker training in itself and "shaping".

You can achieve the finished product by combining several smaller skills like training him to retrieve, hold the toy in his mouth, go to the basket and put the toy in the basket. All these skills should be taught separately and shouldn't be combined until each one is completely learned.

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The first is simple; you must win your dogs mind. If you don’t achieve this first then you will be struggling the all the way. When I talk about winning your dogs mind what I really mean is that your dog looks to you for all the decisions. Before you do anything else watch one of the amazing video sites that show you the 5 Golden rules to establishing yourself as the pack leader. If you aren’t putting these in place then you are setting yourself up to fail. Just at the crucial point where you really want your dog to listen they will go and do their own thing. For sure your dog may play ball occasionally or even most of the time, you may even have a dog that is obedient 99% of the time, however if you want a dog who always listens to you and does as you ask then you need to win your dogs mind.

The second key to success is to motivate your dog. It is really important that you discover what it is that your dog enjoys both in terms of exercise and play but also in terms of a reward. If you can make the experience enjoyable then you will both achieve more and look forward to training.

Some dogs love to fetch, others love agility, and other dogs simply love obedience training, or swimming out into water and retrieve. At least to start with find out what your dogs love is and help them develop this, what I am saying is work with your dog. The other point to recognize is to make training enjoyable reward your dog.

I know of dogs that are trained to recycle and put stuff away so yes it is. Clicker training seems to be the easiest way to teach tricks such as these. There are many clicker books and sites online plus classes. You can teach a dog anything he is physically able to do, you just have to be smart enough to figure out how to train it. My youngest dobe is trained to pick up the MinPins' dog dishes after they are done and bring them to me at the sink to wash. German Shepherds are, IMHO, the most veratile breed, they do police work, lead the blind, herd sheep, find lost people, find gas leaks and also fetch shot ducks. I have owned several GSDs and they always did well in the obed rings. Plus they trained very quickly.

if you show him what to do like you did with regular obedience and make it into a game it can be easy. i refer to all my dogs toys as a 'chew' i'll tell them go get the chew. they'll run for the closest toy and i'll say go put it in your box. a little stow away container. they rush towards the box and plunk it in there. when they come back they get a treat. sometimes they get a little too excited and miss the box or it falls out and still try to get the treat. so i tell them again to go put it in their box and they'll usually get it right the second time if they didn't get it right the first time.in the beginning you should reward any attempt to put the toy away whether it misses or falls out.

i have a rottie/shepherd mix, pit, husky and a yorkie and they can all do it

Just a question, what breed of dog is this? Not that it makes too much of a difference, just some dogs are more servile than others and would be easier to teach. Dogs like Chihuahuas (that behave more like cats) would be a challenge.

First walk him over to the basket and tell him drop-it. Then once he gets used to that put a word with it, say like "Basket" then walk over with him and then say drop it. Slowly stop going with him, like don't go all the way there with him.

Soon he should be accustom to going over and dropping the toy in the basket whenever you say "Basket" Or whatever your word may be :)

yea it is, my dad tought a cat to use and flush the toilet over a long course of short training sessions. So a dog is easier to train and so it is possible.

Better yet, teach them to play with their toys in the toy basket.

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yes its possible but its a lot of training but it'll pay off in the end.

yes my three dogs are they are a standard poodle, shiba inu, and a golden mix