If my dog is across the room and I say "heel" he will come stand at my left hand side because I taught that is the position he needs to get into when I say "heel". It's more efficient to train the final position than to go through all the steps of training a sequence which the dog either in the future has to anticipate, or for you to have to say come-heel-sit. but if you train "heel" to mean sit, that is what the dog will do. In Freestyle we don't train "heel" as a sit, because that's not what we are going to want. If we want it on the right side, we use a different cue, like "right side". It means stand on the left side with his shoulder next to the handler's knee. In freestyle training, the dog gets taught that "heel" is a position. This is not even remotely too complicated to teach a dog.Īctually if you train the dog so that the dog knows very well that "heel" means sit on your left side, then you can call the dog from a distance only using the cue "heel", because in order to do the behavior the dog has to come and then sit by your side. Does that help explain what I was trying to describe about the ”sit by my knee” cue? We are now gradually making the hand cue smaller, working towards me drawing a small circle with my hand (or maybe even a finger if we get that far) at hip level - so a much, much more subtle cue. Then drew my hand in a small circle for him to follow, without the treat but click and treat at the end of the movement. So, for a spin, I started luring the dog in a small circle with a treat, click and give the treat. I know I didn't explain that well, if you don't understand I will try to video something later (eek - no pressure), but I can describe using a hand cue for a different thing more clearly, and it might help clarify what I'm trying to say. Then I'd find a way of using a very similar signal as my hand cue - just moving my hand from the front of my hip to the back of my hip. Then I'd have him at my side, facing the same way as me, and use the same sort of hand movement - only by my side, I'd have to be moving the treat from in front of his nose almost in a backward direction to replicate that - click and reward. I think, if it was me, I'd teach a sit first using a treat in my hand and holding it above the dog's nose and moving it back over his head, so his bottom hits the floor, click and give the treat. But I see how the practicality of using a lure and giving a hand signal could be a challenge, because the lure in your hand will mean your hand signal would not be clean. Probably first if the dog comes, them comes and heels, then comes, sits and heels? Or should I click and treat once he does all three actions? But then how do I fit in a hand signal to make him understand that this signal means all three things (since the three separate commands have a different hand command, they wont get mixed up).Īgain, I'm not sure if this is possible, maybe it's too complicated? Though I know dogs are inteligent and can learn to do amazing and complicated things, I guess it's more that I need to learn to do this correctly.Īctually, a lot of trainers recommend the hand signal before (or even just instead of) the verbal command. This is probably a sequence of come, heel, sit? Now my confusion comes in as to WHEN I'm supposed to reward the dog. I'd like to signal my dog to come to me and sit next to me (wait for release cue of course). So just to start and get the idea how and if I can do this: This would be, in my mind, very useful in multiple situations when I can't give him multiple commands in a row(on the phone, speaking with somebody). I would like to teach my future dog (once it has the basics down) to do two actions with one command (preferably a hand signal, when I grab it's attention and signal him to do a sequence of actions, if possible). I know about the basic commands and how to teach them + hand signals. I will be getting a white swiss shepherd puppy next year and although this might asking the question very early, and it is, I've taken care of a few dogs now as a dog nanny and the amount of untrained dogs is insane and I do not want to do the same mistake as those people. about this with no luck (maybe wrong wording) - so forgive me if this is a duplicate but I do have a very specific question. Hi, I tried looking for articles/topics etc.
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