Dogs are responsive to learning us as humans, and at least in the beginning stages in the following order throughout my contact body lan...
Dogs are
responsive to learning us as humans, and at least in the beginning stages in
the following order throughout my contact body language and then finally the
spoken word.
You would
not want to go I die or get into a dog very, unless you knew them very very
well.
Every dog
is different but I'm recommending this for the overwhelming percentage of us to
have a good relationship with our dog and no that they are likely to react well
when we engage them in this way when the first things I like to teach a dog in
the class is to look at us in the ion commanded us were doing today of my
teaching would also look at us in the eye that accomplishes a couple things
were able to build communication with them in order to teach them moving
forward and were also able to build a bond with them through eye contact dogs
naturally look us in the eyes.
I want
them to be able to do it when we asked for another treatment directly to my I
want you look at my training level training bubble is something that allows us
to get past best result.
That is
the distance between our eyes closer.
That is, initially, the faster our dogs will
respond by Lawrence overtime stretch that bubble larger and larger has to be
done slowly or else it comes.
Does that make sense when we have eye contact,
really two things you say the words watch me or look at me and I'm going to
click is it to say that made the clicker go off when you are looking at me in
the eye because I like that behavior much your smart dog looks like this to me
know what we don't say is watch me watch me watch me very good way.
I know
don't repeat his name over and watch me yet beautiful exactly click perfect you
got it exactly right now.
We got
him in the habit of looking up here.
We want
to start different days out the treat and phase in the hand signal everything
we teach our dogs. We accompanied with some type of visual hand signal not
talking about proper hand signals.
They can
be anything you want.
You make
them do it you're comfortable doing this is how I tell it on this day.
This is
how I tell a dog a look at me now
This
accomplishes a couple of things.
The
reason there is there some reason behind this a most dogs are heavily heavily
receptive to exaggerated body language in addition to verbal language, but
initially we use our hands to communicate.
If you
were going to talk to somebody who didn't know English for the first time, you
might use a lot of body language to explain something to them is very much what
were doing with our dogs and will to accompany it with words that make sense.
So in
this case, look at me now.
It's
going to be coming from down here this time or wherever it's not coming from my
eyes.
You
understand, shifting the emphasis from look at the treat, to look into my eyes
and the streets coming from over here now.
Does that make sense because ultimately we
want our dogs focus on us not to.
So this
is how we bridge that gap.
Watch me
a look at that stare that this is what were going forth.
Also, if
you see one still hunched over here.
I'm still got a nice tight training bubble.
This line
between our eyes and still very close and very direct and very engaging being
engaging with our dogs is critical we can't be robotic.
It's not
about a step-by-step process years about really engaging our own individual
dogs. I think all of you not do that.
We just
forget that initial bit of eye contact at first and then we want to build on
that over time, yes my dear yes and full perfect very good yes good right there
and build on that.
That's
your foundation after brick debris if I was single, would you not immediately
be drawn to me.
If I had
this with me watching to see the nice and tight nice and close here.
That's what the reason that there's a lack of
engagement between you guys right now because you're too far apart with your
dog.
Being the
smart and expect to get down on the ground I die here watching to see this
compass. I watched yes like… You can use the tree to get his attention as he
likes that will meet with and be ready to engage IRI.
After
that, treat make sense yes that was very good. Say watch me show me some genuine
appreciation be real close to realizing to be closer to Farley good very good
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