Teach Your Wheaten Terrier to Recognize His Name With These Dog Obedience Training Tips

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Summary: Learn how to train your Wheaten Terrier to respond to her name in this free online dog obedience training video for teaching good pet behavior.

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Melanie McLeroy She attends conferences regularly, particularly those sponsored by APDT, Tufts and others. She is a trainer in the Head Start program at Town Lake Animal Cent... read more

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Teach Your Wheaten Terrier to Recognize His Name With These Dog Obedience Training Tips

Hi! I’m Melanie McLeroy with Taurus Training for Expert Village. It’s time to work with a Wheaten Terrier. This is Maddy. She’s our Wheaten Terrier. Today Maddy needs to learn how to pay attention. We’re going to teach her to respond to her name. It’s very important that every dog learns to respond to their name, learn to take their cues about their properness of their behavior from you. If you haven’t already please check out the video on relationship building and the pre-training videos, before you start working with your Wheaten Terrier. So what I’m going to do is teach Maddy the name game. I’m going to say her name in a special way and when she makes eye contact I’ll reward that. If you haven’t please again check out the video on marking and rewards before you proceed. So I’ll say her name, she’ll make eye contact, I’ll mark that and then I randomly reinforce. Maddy, good. Now sometimes with Wheatens, it’s hard to tell if they’re looking at you because they have hair in their eyes. Sometimes you can even get a little ponytail holder for the little topknot. Maddy, good, very nice, very nice. Maddy, good. Now Maddy is being extremely responsive. So I’m going to start making her rewards random. Maddy, good. I’ll now wait until she’s distracted. Maddy, good. Also going to start giving her treats from different hands. Maddy, good. Now you notice that time that it took her a little while to look at me. Remember to be patient and don’t keep saying the word of the command or name over and over again. Say it once, if she doesn’t respond, she’s terribly distracted simply walk away and try again later. You can also try using a kissy noise or clapping your hands to help her out, good girl. So we’re going to move on and work on the sit with this Wheaten Terrier.