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Summary: How a dog should follow after the owner when opening a gate or door. Find out in this free online video series.
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Elise McMahon Elise McMahon has a Ph.D. in animal behavior, and has been working with both domestic and wild dogs since the early 1990s. She began studying domestic dogs in... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi, this is Elise McMahon with Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about taking a dog for a walk. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at www.canineheadstart.com. So, what we are going to talk about now, I have got the dog leash and collar, and we are going to talk about leaving a gate, a door, this could be leaving a yard, or it could be leaving your house. And what you want is you want your dog to learn to wait to go out until you have gone out. You don’t want to ever be in the position where you are opening a door or a gate and the dog runs out in front of you. One thing is your dog might not be leashed, you might not have control of your leash, and it could just be that a child from the neighborhood ?becomes nervous?. So, you want the dog to understand that they have to wait to come out. This is how you get this across to the dog, so I am going to approach the gate, Ty, let’s go, and I am going to tell the dog to wait. Ty, wait. I am going to open the gate, wait, and if the dog starts to come out, I pull him back and I close the gate. Ty, wait. I repeat the command. Wait. Wait. Once the dog is waiting with the gate open, then I can give him the release. Okay, let’s go. Good boy. With that you are starting off your walk with a little bit of control and the dog knows you are actually going for a walk with him rather than him taking you for a walk.
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