![]() Far better to teach Drop It as a fun exercise rather than reflexively shouting DROP IT! in an angry voice and teaching your dog to swallow as fast as she can when she hears it. I know these aren’t especially ‘non-traditional’ but they often aren’t taught in training classes and I wish they were. As in: Please drop the dead bird you found, or please pick up your toy and bring it back in the house. TAKE IT/DROP IT: I teach Drop It as the flip side of Take It, and I find I use both of them often. I use it when I want to focus on important issues, including whether Castle and Beckett will ever have a relationship like normal people, when I am done playing with toys with Willie, and when I simply can not stroke Tootsie’s adorable little round belly pooch for one more minute. There’s a video of Enough training in the Reading Room on the website, it’s the Second from the Top. Here are just a few to get us started:ĮNOUGH: Along with “Get Back,” I also love “Enough,” no doubt in part because I have had dogs (and still do) willing to elicit play or petting until all the entire Antarctic ice pack melts and we are all paddling to work. I thought it would be fun to canvass readers to learn about their favorite “non-traditional” cues, and perhaps add to the vocabularies of all of us. But there are a variety of cues that are equally useful, but not as common or well known. Yes, we all need Come, and Sit and Stay I can’t imagine what I would do without them. That led to a very interesting discussion with readers about why he was tongue flicking, but distracted us from the reason we did the taping: the usefulness of “non-traditional” cues in dog training. Katie Martz, Communications Coordinator here at PMcC, video taped Willie getting back in a variety of contexts, and we noticed that every time I said “Get Back” in a context in which he’d rather not, he tongue flicked. She adds that since most dogs don’t get to choose when they go outside, they are usually ready to do their business when we give them the chance.A few weeks ago I wrote a post on the cue “Get Back,” which is one of my favorites because it is so useful in so many contexts. “But most people have a good sense of their dog’s needs and are able to work with their pet’s usual routine,” Dr. Note: The cue will not work if your dog doesn’t have to go. (You should still offer him a treat for following through every so often so he remembers that there might be something in it for him.) Soon enough, you will be able to say the cue even before your dog squats or lifts his leg, and he will be able to comply.
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