Dog training is very vital in the real world. There are a lot different uses for it. The most common type of dog training that we see every day is in-home training. It is very important for keeping your pet in check. People can also use it for teaching their pets tricks and other things for agility races. There are also a lot of dog owners that just teach their dogs tricks just so that they can do cool things. Here's a video of a dog pushing a shopping cart.
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There are other uses for dog training as well. It isn't just used for dogs in-home. The police also train and use dogs to help out with law enforcement. A couple well known uses of dogs in law enforcement are the drug/bomb sniffing dogs and the search and rescue dogs. The police sometimes also use dogs to chase down criminals.
Dog Training in Action
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The video is a nice example although I wish they would have shown more of the actual training and shaping. I'm always interesting to know how reliable bomb/drug sniffing dogs are. How often do they just lay down and ignore whatever the trainer wants them to do?
It would have been really interesting if you'd elaborated on more of the details of the training methods such as shaping that can lead animals to do the uncharacteristic and strange things like pushing carts. It would be especially interesting to know how seeing eye dogs are trained, because their jobs require what seems to be the most precise training. There's a lot of importance weighing on their obedience because a human life being at the mercy of training quality.
I agree, it would have been nice if the techniques and practices of police dogs was covered into more detail. As a dog owner myself, I know that it is not an easy task to teach a dog new concepts. I agree with the other comments on how eye dogs would be trained, that would be very interesting.