Train a Dog to Stop for Cars

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Hi this is Elise McMahon with Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about taking your 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 in this short video clip we are going to be talking about encountering a car when you are out for a walk with your dog. We’ve already discussed encountering a person and encountering a person with a dog and throughout this the theme is that you want the dog to be interacting with whatever you are coming across in the environment in a calm manner. So what we are going to do here is demonstrate for you one of the things you might want to do when you are walking down a road with your dog and a car comes by. I am going to use a command which I’ve taught the dogs which is car come. When the dog hears that, it is always associated with the approach of a car and when they hear that they are supposed come back to me and sit and wait until the car is gone by and then we continue on our walk. I am going to demonstrate this with Ursa. Let’s go Ursa. Ursa, come, come. Good girl. Okay, let’s go, wait, good girl. Wait. Good girl. Good job. So in this case I didn’t actually have her sit but I had her come back to me and give me her attention when the car was coming. Working on these kinds of exercises with your dogs will avoid things like car chasing for breeds that tend to like it. Often times it is hurting dogs that like to chase cars or just simply any dog that is left out in its yard and board a lot and will get into the habit of wanting to chase the car. So if you work on these control exercises with your dog around vehicles, your dog in the long run will be a lot better off.

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