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  • #63814
    puppyblues
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    Is there such things as formal hand signals for training? I have found Scooby has trouble switching from my voice to my sons voice. Yet will do things for my son when he puts his hand in different positions.
    His down seems to be cued to my hand in a fist holding a treat on the floor. Rather than me saying down.
    So as I want us all to help out in the training maybe this would be easier. (as I fall about laughing at my son copying my girly tone)

    #78711
    xtine
    Member

    Bev will be able to give you better advice than me on this but we have verbal and visual cues..eg down is “down” and index finger pointing to the floor, sit is index finger pointing up, “come” is a full hand of fingers (?) with the back of hand facing dog…. hope that helps a little?

    #78712
    puppyblues
    Member

    Thank you xtine  ;D

    #78713

    i dont think there are any ‘offical’ hand signals but mine are:
    Down – point to the floor with index finger
    Flat (were they are laid flat on thier side) – down signal then tap the floor with index finger
    Sit – point up with back of hand facing dog
    come – arms wide (like your an airoplane)
    Stay – flat palm facing dog, policeman style
    Wait – point at were dog is
    Away – sweep arm accross body and point were dog should go

    i think thats is 😀

    #78714
    Sweetypye
    Member

    Dogs will always take their cue from body language first; one of the “tests” to see if a dog understands verbal cues is to give them out of sight!

    In order to facilitate dogs putting their ears on, once the dog has learned the body language cue, precede it by the verbal one, wait a second and follow up with body language. NEVER say and do a cue simultaneously.

    this way you can transfer behaviours between cues, the same applies with a whistle.

    For example, if you were working a dog on film you would use body signals out of camera shot so your voice was not caught on the soundtrack; in the home you would use a verbal cue and in a field 300 yards a way you would use a whistle.

    Same behaviour but on three different cues appropriate to the environment.

    #78715
    puppyblues
    Member

    Thank you guys. Sounds like you all dothe same signs, and sweetypye it makes sense now. I was double cuing him speech and body language. Now I will remember to wait a second in between. Does he hear the word or the tone in your voice?.

    #78716

    people believe that dogs hear the sound not the word that is produced but i like to believe that my boy can understand me ;D

    #78717
    Sweetypye
    Member

    Again you can test your dog as to tone or word.

    I often teach my clients in Arabic to give them an understanding of what a dog does not understand!  :educated:

    #78718
    xtine
    Member

    😀 good one Sweetypye  ;D

    We thought we were being smart by discussing the squirrel that frequented our garden in french… Fritz now knows the French word and not the English  :surrender:  😀

    #78719
    puppyblues
    Member

    Wow multilingual dogs  ;D

    #78720
    kizkiznobite
    Member

    have emailed you my cue sheet

    #78721
    puppyblues
    Member

    Thank you

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