[nagdu] Sound/body cues?

[Tracy Carcione]

That's funny that GEB uses a thigh-tap for Sit.  At both GDB and TSE, a 
thigh-slap while working means move over, you're too far to the right.
Tracy

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From: "Raven Tolliver" <ravend729 at gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Sound/body cues?


> During training, one of the sound cues my class was taught was to
> double tap our thigh to cue our dogs to sit. Dunno why that was the
> only cue that had a sound cue rather than a hand signal.
> With the Golden Guy, I also snap to get his attention while working.
> Most of the time, it's when he is hell bent on going in our routine
> direction or through a frequented set of doors, and I want to go
> somewhere else. In that instance, I will sweep over his head and point
> in the desired direction or just snap in that general direction to get
> him to turn immediately.
> It's interesting that Jenny doesn't respond to hand signals well.
> Whenever I train dogs, I almost always teach hand gestures before I
> introduce verbal cues. I understand that all trainers don't do this
> though.
> When we first got our dogs, a fellow classmate would tap her feet near
> her dog's head to get her to stop sniffing while lying down.
> I'm curious about snapping while working to get your dog to slow down
> or sync up with your stride. Does Jenny seem to be getting the hang of
> it?
>
> On 3/19/14, Daryl Marie <crazymusician at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Hey!
>> Just been starting to use sound cues with Jenny in addition to, or 
>> instead
>> of, the original hand signals that she doesn't seem to respond to. 
>> Lately,
>> if she's not sitting when she needs to, I tap my foot, or if she's not
>> walking steady, I snap my fingers in a rhythm with my feet to focus her a
>> bit.
>>
>> Does anyone have any other pointers?  Successes? Questions...
>>
>> Daryl and the awesome Jenny girl
>>
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