do yous think

[poacherman 353]

thats good going, ive still got my lurcher on the slip while lamping but looking to keeping it at heel soon but watching other dogs running rabbits while at heel is a hard task but i will give it a go when i think shes ready. its great seeing a well trained dog. lot of lurcher men now just go out and slip and thats it but theres a lot more to dogs than that

 

atb poacherman

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:lol: :lol: :lol: pmsl

 

Share the joke mate.

 

you missed it fella been taken off

[flak88 0]

To some extent we all use hand and body signals when communicating with the dogs, many people are not even aware they use them. For instance, when you want a puppy to come to you you get down through your knees and spread your arms wide. Most if not all puppies will react to this gesture and come to you cheerfully. Many people point their hand downwards when giving the dog the command "down" . Once the dog obeys this, it is a very small step to have the dog go down on the gesture only without the spoken command.

Dogs do not speak English their communication is all non-verbal so they are naturals in obading hand or body signals. The biggest challange in training your dog to listen to hand signals is to control your own unthinking gestures as these may confuse the dog - and it is very difficult if not impossible at all to see your own mistakes.

 

As someone mentioned above the biggest flaw to hand signals is that they only work when the dog can see you, once a terrier or spaniel is in the bush or high grass or whatever he cannot make eye contact so you will have to rely on either voice or whistle commands.

 

So, training a dog to hand signals is not difficult at all but having a dog trained to just hand signals may turn out to be a bit impractical