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First off I have to say thank you to dvflyer for sending me a book called all dogs need some training by Liz Palika...It is a great book for first time dog owners. I now have read three books and none of them give me any insight of what hand signals to use when training your dog. All three books give great tips on how to do certain tricks but not hand signal. Can you all help me here?
I am currently using hand signals for:
Sit- My right arm bend up
Down- my righ arm bend down
Stay- I show her the hand
Heel- I put my arm on the outer left leg.
Roll- I make a circle close to her head
Hand Shake - I put my hand out
Come- Wave my hand to my belly button
Can anyone give me tips on what hand signals to use for these tricks?
Spin-
crawl-
Stand-
Back-
Forward-
If any other trick that I haven't mention please mention as well.
First off I have to say thank you to dvflyer for sending me a book called all dogs need some training by Liz Palika...It is a great book for first time dog owners. I now have read three books and none of them give me any insight of what hand signals to use when training your dog. All three books give great tips on how to do certain tricks but not hand signal. Can you all help me here?
I am currently using hand signals for:
Sit- My right arm bend up
Down- my righ arm bend down
Stay- I show her the hand
Heel- I put my arm on the outer left leg.
Roll- I make a circle close to her head
Hand Shake - I put my hand out
Come- Wave my hand to my belly button
Can anyone give me tips on what hand signals to use for these tricks?
Spin-maybe a corkscrew movement with your arm
crawl-
Stand-I use my hand kind of closed (all fingertips touching) and put it in front of the nose and open my hand as I pull away from the nose
Back-I push out with both hands
Forward-I use the classic 'come here' hand gesture
If any other trick that I haven't mention please mention as well.
really any hand signal you come up with in the moment is good as long as you are consistent. I did an internship with dolphins for a while, and they had some of the oddest signals ever, but it was what they used to capture the behavior in the moment and couldn't change it
whatever signals you use will work if used consistently. I think that's aweomse that you are using signals. I have a friend who uses signals w/ her agility dog because he's deaf, it's kinda cool.
I use signals w/ Cody like 50% of the time.
I point my pointer finger in a circle to indicate a right or left turn.
I am also using voice commands too but using both for awhile until she gets it.... It cool how she get alot of them quickly because I do both and I know she is paying attention to me because of the hand signals as well
I have deafies so I have to use hand signals, but even the hearing dogs know the signals. (I too used both verbal and hand commands when training my hearing dogs.) Whatever is easy for you to remember and do consistently is what will work the best--simpler is easier. If you need some ideas, check out a website on American sign language and go from there. (hmmm, now that I've looked at other poster's responses, basically I just said, "Yeah, what they said." Yikes!)
I am also using voice commands too but using both for awhile until she gets it.... It cool how she get alot of them quickly because I do both and I know she is paying attention to me because of the hand signals as well
u can use both commands, I do!
dogs actually learn body language quicker then voice. It is fun!
Doggies are fun to teach!
First off I have to say thank you to dvflyer for sending me a book called all dogs need some training by Liz Palika...It is a great book for first time dog owners.
. You're welcome.
Ditto to what everyone else said. Any hand signal will work. Just make sure you're consistent. Maybe you could even use goofy hand signals... like rub your stomach means spin. Or pat your head means "x". etc. Would be fun while showing off your dog's tricks.
Ditto to what everyone else said. Any hand signal will work. Just make sure you're consistent. Maybe you could even use goofy hand signals... like rub your stomach means spin. Or pat your head means "x". etc. Would be fun while showing off your dog's tricks.
What a great idea...Now all I have to do is dress up like a Clown
I trained my Springler Spaniel strickly American sign language and no voice. She knew about 30 signs.
The sign for stand: right palm facing up, left two index fingers pointing on top of right palm. This indicates two legs (right index fingers)
Spin: I think might be right index finger pointing down rotating clockwise. I would have to look this up to be sure.
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