What about the dog that wants to play fight if they walk this close to you? I feel crazy having to correct constantly trying to get him to work and not play. 🤦 He's almost 6 months old.
You actually don’t want to stop him from playing, you want to use that to reinforce or reward any command you’re teaching him. It is the best way to train for the dogs sake. (You don’t want to suppress a dogs natural drive. You want to learn to harness it and actually USE it to your advantage making you a really fun person to learn from and be motivated by.) Watch this playlist to understand more… th-cam.com/play/PLJW_ZGMoNMMa8QvRgZEOJtXC2uwllsMPn.html
If dog is on Break command and away from me and with me standing still, how do I get dog to come back to heel position ? Do I need another command to do this?
you need to call the dog back into your bubble of space (usually about 5 feet around you, so if you are at a distance you would say "come" and then when he is almost there, slap your leg, say "heel" and turn your body if you need to so that he walks straight into the heel. Later when he is wayyyy more proficient at it you can have him do the 180 turn into the heel. ANd finally when he is a master you can say heel from a far he should just come to you and heel. But def call him to you first and then redirect into the heel when he is close to you. If he doesn't know heel though you need to go back to leash work for it.
Lead Off Leash K9 Training Thank you. Right now he knows Come and sit in front of me and then I would Heel him. My goal like you mentioned is to use just the Heel command alone when he is at distance and do away with the Come. A trainer I saw on TH-cam uses the Finish command to put dog to his side then Heel. Just wanted to know how one would do Heeling from distance with just one command alone.
jon jake I find that the dog has to be very well seasoned in the heel command as described in my last comment to be able to do a distanced heel command. Calling him with a come and then when he gets close to redirecting to the heel. However, you can use the finish command I don’t do that because I might as well just say heel instead of finish. And for me, I teach heel as moving. I don’t stand there not moving and say heel when I say heel and I start moving, so I initiate movement as heel is a moving command. For example, my own personal dog when I yell heel from afar and he comes running and jumps in the air to do a 180 and gets right by my side. I don’t even have to be moving anymore, he knows where to be. So it’s like the finish command but I never actually called it that. Just over many months of doing a come to heel he knew what I want. I hope this helps. And when I say well seasons, I mean many months of doing a come to heel. Good luck!
Our doberman no longer pulls for me but she is insists on being just slightly ahead of my leg. Some of it stems from the fact that she is allowed to walk ahead by my husband. She'll be 10 years old tomorrow, is it too late to break this bad habit?
Pam Thorne You can always teach an old dog new tricks! But, it will be time-consuming to correct. If it’s not too bothersome, not pulling, and she’s not a reactive dog, then who cares? If she does get too far ahead and she is reactive and looking like she’s kind of on the prowl when she’s ahead, then fix it. I teach the dog to not get ahead of the leg they are following. So when that leg is out in front in a heel flexed about to put the heel on the ground position the dog should cute into that foot. I use a prong collar to give a little information (light leash pull or pop to pull them back BEHIND the leg) if they get ahead of it. Let me know if that doesn’t make sense and I’ll try to explain it a different way.
How old should i start training my blue healer
As soon as you get them. Everything you do or allowance you make is training, don’t forget that ! 🐾😃
What about the dog that wants to play fight if they walk this close to you? I feel crazy having to correct constantly trying to get him to work and not play. 🤦 He's almost 6 months old.
You actually don’t want to stop him from playing, you want to use that to reinforce or reward any command you’re teaching him. It is the best way to train for the dogs sake. (You don’t want to suppress a dogs natural drive. You want to learn to harness it and actually USE it to your advantage making you a really fun person to learn from and be motivated by.) Watch this playlist to understand more… th-cam.com/play/PLJW_ZGMoNMMa8QvRgZEOJtXC2uwllsMPn.html
If dog is on Break command and away from me and with me standing still, how do I get dog to come back to heel position ? Do I need another command to do this?
you need to call the dog back into your bubble of space (usually about 5 feet around you, so if you are at a distance you would say "come" and then when he is almost there, slap your leg, say "heel" and turn your body if you need to so that he walks straight into the heel. Later when he is wayyyy more proficient at it you can have him do the 180 turn into the heel. ANd finally when he is a master you can say heel from a far he should just come to you and heel. But def call him to you first and then redirect into the heel when he is close to you. If he doesn't know heel though you need to go back to leash work for it.
Lead Off Leash K9 Training Thank you. Right now he knows Come and sit in front of me and then I would Heel him. My goal like you mentioned is to use just the Heel command alone when he is at distance and do away with the Come. A trainer I saw on TH-cam uses the Finish command to put dog to his side then Heel. Just wanted to know how one would do Heeling from distance with just one command alone.
jon jake I find that the dog has to be very well seasoned in the heel command as described in my last comment to be able to do a distanced heel command. Calling him with a come and then when he gets close to redirecting to the heel. However, you can use the finish command I don’t do that because I might as well just say heel instead of finish. And for me, I teach heel as moving. I don’t stand there not moving and say heel when I say heel and I start moving, so I initiate movement as heel is a moving command. For example, my own personal dog when I yell heel from afar and he comes running and jumps in the air to do a 180 and gets right by my side. I don’t even have to be moving anymore, he knows where to be. So it’s like the finish command but I never actually called it that. Just over many months of doing a come to heel he knew what I want. I hope this helps. And when I say well seasons, I mean many months of doing a come to heel. Good luck!
Lead Off Leash K9 Training Thank you. It’s really cool that your dog can be called to Heel when handler is in motion.
Our doberman no longer pulls for me but she is insists on being just slightly ahead of my leg. Some of it stems from the fact that she is allowed to walk ahead by my husband. She'll be 10 years old tomorrow, is it too late to break this bad habit?
Pam Thorne You can always teach an old dog new tricks! But, it will be time-consuming to correct. If it’s not too bothersome, not pulling, and she’s not a reactive dog, then who cares? If she does get too far ahead and she is reactive and looking like she’s kind of on the prowl when she’s ahead, then fix it. I teach the dog to not get ahead of the leg they are following. So when that leg is out in front in a heel flexed about to put the heel on the ground position the dog should cute into that foot. I use a prong collar to give a little information (light leash pull or pop to pull them back BEHIND the leg) if they get ahead of it. Let me know if that doesn’t make sense and I’ll try to explain it a different way.