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here are some pictures of our class dogs. Darby is placing on a turned over rubbermaid container with her raindeer antlers, and she is with mollie on another place. We use the place command to have the dog stand on whatever we point to and they are to stay there til we call them. This exercise is good for teaching the dog to stay in one place, and to figure out how to get on certain places as we use difficult as well as easy placeboards. It helps the dog accomplish something and builds confidence.It is good to give the dog a challenge as he will have to figure out how to do something you ask him to do. Which is better than him finding things to figure out while your not home, like how to get into the closet find your best shoes in a plastic container and get them down to eat them. That is why puzzle toys are good to occupy some dogs, they need to think. You can have your dog place on lots of things like rocks big or small, logs walls, benches whatever. we even have dogs that will place on fire hydrants. Another thing we practice with placing is getting the dogs together in close quarters.Some dogs who have issues being around other dogs have to work towards tolerating another dog in their space without getting all nasty.Here darby shows a good example of being with another dog,even having a dog over her is a submissive thing and she tolerates that well.