How long does it take to train a dog to shake paws?
But to give you a rough estimate, it took 2 weeks to train my 5 year old Bull Mastiff (who had a recent bout with Encephalitis and I suspect is now a bit …slow) to learn to shake. She had absolutely no natural tendancy to use her paw in a shake-like motion. I used food as a motivator and we practiced probably 3 sessions per day, with probably 5-10 attempts to get her to shake each session. When she was 2 years old, I taught her to roll over (much more complicated than learning to shake) in 3 days.
