Claudia Fugazza’s “Do As I Do” DVD does an excellent job of explaining her training program, and includes numerous clips of dogs learning the method at a seminar. Ease of training object-related actions– Improve the dog’s attentiveness toward owner– Enhance the relationship between dog and owner– Exercise the dog’s cognitive abilitiesThe technique is taught in three phases. In Phase 1, the dog learns the “imitation rule” with three known behaviors. In Phase 2, he generalizes the rule to other known behaviors. In Phase 3, the trainer uses the rule to teach the dog new behaviors.