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LESSON 2 · Master the Basics

Fading the Lure

Food in your hand was only ever training wheels. After about ten clean stands, drop the treat.

Keep the same forward gesture with an empty, flat palm — the hand moves exactly where the lure used to go, so the motion already means "stand" to your dog. Reward from your other hand or a pocket after the feet plant.

Most dogs follow the empty hand within a session or two, because you changed nothing but the food.