Do as I Do is a new training method based on a dog’s social cognitive skills, particularly on his imitative ability. With this technique, dogs will learn new behaviours by observing and imitating their owners. During the semina, Sara will describe how to teach dogs the “imitation rule” and how to progress through the training protocol. Dogs will first be taught to imitate a small set of familiar actions (actions already trained with traditional techniques) and will then generalize this rule. At the end of the training protocol, the owner will be able to teach new behaviours to their dogs, simply by showing them what to do. These new actions will be then put under verbal cue. Sara will also explain what are the cognitive abilities implied in imitation and in this training technique, which is the first training method based on dog’s social cognitive skills.