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Train Your Dog To HEEL – BEGINNER TIP – Professional Dog Training

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Do you want your dog to walk next to you off leash? Training your dog to walk next to you in the heel position using food as a lure can cause the problem of the dog only staying in the heel position when the food is there, and when the food is gone the dog is gone. Emily goes over an exercise to work on to teach the dog the concept to stay in the heel position even when there is no food as a lure or no target. You can train your puppy this same exercise. Here is a fun training game to teach your adult dog or puppy to walk at your side in the heel position and stop when you stop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45lk4_tud9Y Focusing on arousal levels when heeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrWInQlDv3s #dogtraining #dogtrainer #professionaldogtraining

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30 Comments on “Train Your Dog To HEEL – BEGINNER TIP – Professional Dog Training”

  2. Thank you so much for this video! My pup is 11 months old and we are hardcore struggling with adolescence and walking side-by-side. This was perfect timing for us!!

  5. Thank you for this video, very helpful as ever! My dog does well indoors and when I walk him straight out of the house but when I take him somewhere in the car he won’t stay by my side and pulls on his lead, can you give me any advice please on what I can do to help him to remember his training when he’s in a new and exciting environment?

  6. Watching your videos helps me connect with my clients because seeing it from their perspective is hard for me as someone who thinks they can teach anything, but its all about what the owner thinks they can do(and does) not what I can do with their dog.

  8. Excellent fading the treat or target! Wish is such a beautiful dog! I teach Heel as the position by my side, like you demo’d, moving or not. Well Done, Emily! Heel comes in handy at the off-leash beach, to reassure other people my dog is under control as we pass, esp. when they have kids. God’s best blessings & hugs from us🙏🙂🐚💕

  9. I half-accidentally managed to teach my Medium Poodle to heel for short stretches on and off leash, this video inspired me to try and shape it into a neater and more reliable form.

  14. I use a lot of reward based training and have done from the 1980s. With all sorts of breeds and these methods work solidly. I do use leash pressure and the word no as a negative marker. The only problem arises when people bring dogs that have been given too much freedom and not enough training. So the desire for the owners to spend time, effort and consistency into the dogs training isn’t there. Everyone wants a quick fix. So the owners bounce from trainer to trainer until the punitive measures are introduced. These also work. I started training dogs in the 70s and harsh training was common place. You are an excellent trainer👍

    1. Thanks so much. Yeah. I learned that the clients that seem to give you the most praise and flattery, and seem the most “IM SO GLAD I FOUND YOU” are a big red flag – these are the trainer hoppers. Take what they say with a grain of sand because they will mix and match what they want, and then move on to the next trainer hoping for the quick fix…

  18. Hi I love your videos and how quickly you manage to get the instructions understood by your Collie’s,I had a B & W long haired Border Collie for over 13yrs and I self taught him as if he was a human and being together 24/7 as I got him after 17 months in hospital after a car hit mine at 72mph whilst I was stationary waiting to turn right,so due to this I could no longer do my work as a Zoologist mainly in the endangered species programmes,this was devastating for me afterwards I began having blackouts meaning it’s too risky working with Tiger’s,Wolves, Grizzly bears and similar dangerous animals and had to stop my passion/work, so living on the shore of a Scottish loch and having my Collie “SAM” he also aided in the rest of my ongoing recovery but now disabled and HE CLEARLY GOT ME THROUGH the following years and no matter what I said to him even new sentence’s it was amazing how he knew what I meant!! Even doing this when I had visitors and got them to suggest a topic indoors he’s never heard before and they couldn’t believe how it was possible? I was just as surprised as they were, now I have a 1yr old Golden retriever and after I was ill for a couple of months a few months after getting him at 9 weeks old I didn’t get his training done as planned but now I just can’t get him to understand he’s not to jump up on people who are visiting like my Nurses twice a day every day to tend my medical needs and medication,no matter what I’ve tried he’s just not getting it, after hours and hours and days etc, he’s doing some of the things I’ve taught him but not the same way I did with my Collie before,I must use an all terrain mobility scooter to get around taking him for his walk’s/run’s running along one side of the scooter on the lead at the start before we get round the corner and up the hill because we have red deer wandering around my bungalow and sleeping on the grass area across the road and they come in the garden too every day and even down in the village and they are not afraid as they are free in the Scottish Highlands west coast and nobody will hurt them, plus they are all born wherever they are and I’ve had 3 fawn’s born outside my kitchen window amongst the fern and heather of my back garden area, anyway sorry for going on,any suggestions on stopping him jumping up would be much appreciated thanks

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