How to train Attention and Eye Contact!

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This is a continuation of "the most important things to train your new dog or puppy"

This tutorial goes over how to teach eye contact as well as how to teach your dog to look at you whn you make an attention noise or say his name.

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22 Comments on “How to train Attention and Eye Contact!”

  1. im so glad you made this video i tried training my dog this a couple of weeks ago, but she is very shy and doesn’t like to look at my eyes she looks at me but keep her face pointing down so its hard to see her eyes and she wont stop doing this

  2. Your videos are so helpful! We had a tiny run in with our obedience teacher tonight when he asked me why I didn’t give my pup the Stay command. I told him I was teaching him a sit means sit and a down means down. He wasn’t happy…oh well, I like your methods and am going to keep using them. I’ve had tremendous results in only a week!!

  3. Perfect!
    Love what you got your little one to do by-way of backing up, sideways and circling. Can you click me to the link for those lessons?

    next/last question: how long do you train for any given trick/command/behavior? How many do you teach at one time? Do you repeat during the day? If so how many times? do you wait until they’ve gottit before moving on to the next trick/command/behavior. Mine has real difficulty with distraciton. So this video is great

  4. I also note many games, sports, dancing are done with border collies. I’d like to see some trainers really making inroads with non-border dogs. Borders tend to be much easier to train–on the whole, right–?

  5. I use the letter “X” as a marker. It is not a word I might inadvertently use while praising my dog “Yes, good boy, almost . . . EX!” *treat* he responds to it very well, I think it’s the sharpness/distinctness of the sound that helps get his focus.

  6. Hi Emily really love your videos. Would you do one on helping a very aggressive food resourse gaurder. 18mth Golden Cocker had already bitten 3 times I was making progress but owner feeling wary of the pup now and her fear is noticed by the dog. HEr ralationship with him broke down when advised by another “trainer” to follow dominance rank reduction methods so now I am having to deal with the problems that damage did. many thanks and keep up the good work!

  7. Oh Emily, I just loved the crew waiting on the couch!!! : ) I use many of your training methods with my horse and encourage horse owners to come watch your stuff and try it with horses–great fun! Thanx for the vids!

  8. Thanks for making this video, Emily – this is how I teach attention and so I can give the link to my students as a reference – makes my work a lot easier!

  9. Hi Emily,
    Funny what we capture sometimes, sure the first dog initialy was concentrating on head lift (stretching neck) rather than the eye contact. Inadvertantly captured a dog tossing toy higher rather than nearer because it was landing closer the higher he tossed it.

  10. My dog will look at me, and then glance away quickly and look back again. Should I still reward this because she came back or does it need to be constant eye contact?

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