In the event you haven’t looked at this yet, the lure and reward program is a great way of educating your dog. The free puppies to good home definitely benefit from this technique!

An excellent advantage of this methodology is that it allows a normal movement to become a visual cue… a kind of sign language for your pet. This is actually so neat! Dogs are rather visual and they often react to body movements better than they do to sound. (You are going to need to keep this in mind since from time to time it might work in opposition to you: to your puppy, your speech might be stating one thing even while your gesture is expressing the complete opposite. In dog communication, body language trumps verbal language each and every time. We’ll cover this in a lot more depth later on.)

Think of being able to take advantage of hand signals as instructions for your doggy when you are on the cell phone, or too far away for your puppy to hear you. It’s actually surely some thing worth going after!