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    They are listening to my feet. Watch this.

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     Dogs are extremely intelligent and so amazing at reading our body language, as well as the sounds we make like our foot movements. We don’t need to always use verbal communication, in this example on a walk, where I am walking on a road where cars can suddenly appear. I keep my dogs closer than when we walk on a trail with no cars. You can see how they can easily understand I’m stopping by the sound of my feet.  I am over exaggerating the footsteps so you can hear them on the video. This behavior was trained using positive reinforcement training. #dogtraining #dogtrainer #professionaldogtraining.

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    1. @Eternal_11_Sasha on

      I trained my dogs to do this as well years ago. Ten years later they still pay attention. This is important people. Do it. Also vary the sound of your voice in training. It can save lives. On one occasion, I was out at night with one of my dogs, a russian shepherd was loose, I caught sight of it before it saw my dog and I. I whispered to my dog to leave it and get behind me. He followed my guidance and we were able to slowly walk to a safe location quietly. Before she noticed us we were already behind a fence line.

    8. @Chasenhaws on

      This is exactly what my dude does. We spend most of our days outside hiking and exploring in nature. He's always just naturally been an in front walker so listening to my feet has been his way of staying in tune with me even when he can't see me. There for awhile, though, I thought I had made a big mistake by allowing him to stay out in front so much. Because he wasn't constantly turning to look at me, I worried that I had inadvertently taught him to focus on and engage with the environment way more than with me. I was afraid that this was going to make teaching him a solid heel very difficult. Luckily, it didn't take me long to realize that that wasn't true, at all. He was, in fact, very in tune and interested in what I was doing. He had just chosen to use his ears to keep track of me instead of his eyes. I decided to meet him half way and instead of trying to teach him to catch my every turn and pivot with his eyes, I just paired verbal cues to all of those movements instead. He already knew the movements well just from listening to my feet, so picking up on the verbals came naturally for him. Im really glad that it all worked out this way because an awesome side effect has been that we can now match one another's movements whether we're side by side or 30 feet apart, which makes for some pretty cool looking tricks and routines.

    12. @adaszpakowska9384 on

      How did you get them to stay so close to you? My English Cocker Spaniel would be at least 20-30 m ahead with her nose stuck to the ground 😀 Not running away, it just seems like she doesnt care that much about being close as long as she sees me 😛

    13. @TeslaNick2 on

      Amazing ! I did something similar with my two in the early days by shuffling backwards it would always get their attention.

    19. @mondop5270 on

      Theyre beautiful dogs but should only be owned by peopke who can give them daily hours of excercise. I hate seeing tbese breeds owned in cities and suburbs where they spend most of the week in a backyard.

    22. @theamziss on

      Love it, my greyhound does the same. Never taught him this, I think he's just scared to loose me. On top of that he stops whenever he gets 10m in front of us, looks back at us and either waits till we caught up to him or till we say "let's go!". Then he'll trot away and after 15sec. do the exact same thing. This I think might be the result of all the years he used to walk on a 5 or 10m long leash in front of us. It's only a few years after adopting him that we taught him a reliable recall. But he still stops whenever he gets 5 – 10m in front of us to wait for us to catch up 🙂

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