Eye contact and verbals might rank lowest on your dog’s natural list of priorities, but they’re essential for refining your communication. And, as a human being, eye contact and verbals are usually highest on YOUR priority list (I mean, let’s be honest, our first response in a crisis is to start waving our arms around and verbalizing 🤣).
Learn to use eye contact to cue connection or collection, and train verbals so they can override physical cues when needed. Then, see how all six cues work together for precision handling.
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Eye Contact
Verbals
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