![]() To allow your pet to learn they first need to ‘look’ to be able to watch what command you want them to do. ![]() If you want to completely shift from auditory commands to only nonverbal cues this is an extremely important first step. If you make it a priority, your dog will pick up the hand signals quickly! 1. Training is best when you work with your pet daily. If your dog already is familiar with the standard commands: sit, stay etc., then making the transition to hand signals is fairly straight-forward. Once your dog is accurately responding to your commands, slowly fade out the reward. Reinforce behavior with rewards (treats and praise).The most effective way to teach your dog is to follow these 2 steps: Your pet needs to learn the association between the verbal command and hand signals. Pets can lose some degree of their hearing as they age, which is why these hand signals can really come in handy! We’ve narrowed it down to the top 5 commands you can teach your dog today. Many pet owners introduce this at a young age and it is a great training technique that becomes even more invaluable as your dog grows older. Most pets are able to respond better when an auditory command is paired with a hand signal. If you want to continue training on your own, that's great, however, I would work on re-enforcing everthing that you are currently doing with distractions added.Teaching your dog hand signals is a great way to improve your communication with your pet. Also, have you already been hunting with him? Have you thrown bumpers into your decoy spread and let him retrieve the bumper only, and not the decoys? Has he been able to navigate through the deeks without panicking because he has a bunch of plastic following him? Does he deliver to hand without dropping the mark and shaking off first? Like I said before, I think you are getting ahead of yourself with the hand signal thing for reasons described above. If you really have a dog that is as good as you say, and this is the first dog you have trained, I would seriously suggest getting him to a good professional, as this dog is probably already past your ability as a trainer.no offense to you, but from what you have described, it is my personal opinion that you would do more harm to your dogs training than that of a good professional. Not trying to criticize any one, but sitting at the edge of a pond watching ducks swim by is different than having him sit there while you shoot one of those ducks and he sees it fall, and knows that he is supposed to get that thing that is out there flopping around. Slow down your training or you will only frustrate yourself and confuse your dog, not a good situation for either of you. I appreciate your enthusiasm, I think you're going to have a great dog, but I am afraid you have not honestly evaluated your pup's progress. Teaching a dog hand signals too soon will turn your dog into a bit of a robot that can't think on his own when he is out in the marsh and out of your sight line. He needs confidence to follow his nose and his instincts, which he develops through time. Your dog needs to develop skills to hunt on his own. ![]() Even according to Water Dog, at 13 weeks the pup is just a toddler, house breaking and basic obedience at that age are good milestones.Īs for your handling initial question regarding hand signals - if I give you the benefit of the doubt and accept that your 13 week old machine has total command of obedience, you should not be teaching hand signals at this point. I could be mistaken but I am skeptical that your dog is even developed enough to comprehend this level of obedience. A dog that has a thorough obedience training will stay on a remote sit and focused on the handler no matter what the distraction. If your dog is as obedience trained as you say this should be no problem. In a safe setting in a park put the dog at sit. Do not put your dog in a position where he could get away from you and be harmed, such as running into a road. Take your pup to a place where there are a lot of people, such as a town park. I would challenge you to try a few things. ![]() It takes lots of repetition and dedication to have properly train obedience to a dog. Obedience is the core for all retrievers, without it the entire process falls apart. I am not trying to discredit your success, but I think you are getting ahead of yourself. I have trained only a hand full so I am no expert, but from my experience there is no way your dog is where you think he is. Many have been training retrievers for years. If this is your first I would invite and encourage you to listen to some of these people. My first question to you is how many retrievers have you trained? Mystic, they aren't trying to beat you up, take it as constructive criticism based on years of experience training dogs.
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