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Yes. Agreed. The head down is a calmer more relaxed thing. It takes longer for the dog to get to this point. The next step is rolling onto her side, even more relaxed. We also trained the sit and look at me, focus on me. For us they are used in different situations. My dog is an...

Exactly your dog is learning a behavior that will eventually translate into other things. Our mark was initially a towel. The desired behavior in any environment was to lay down on the mark, all the way down, head resting on paws, and wait. The dog was learning to be calm. To ignore the...

You can also get touch to be nose to object instead, like if you want to use a broom handle or something longer than your arm. The key is to make sure they understand touch first and then their little brains start working at trying to figure out how they are going to touch when they can't reach...

I haven't read all the other answers, but will give from my experience. Target and bed are separate. Bed= crate or lying in dog bed and is a very specific place and associated behavior Target= whatever I make it, generally something visual and tactile so there is more than one sense...