So often when teaching a dog to come to us – when we call them, they’ll look at us just like this. Right here is your opportunity to give them additional information like, Yes! and look happy and inviting so they want to make the right choice and come to you. Typically the next words out of my mouth are Good Choice! reminding me more than them that they had a variety of options to chose from and what a great choice they chose to make. Remember you can’t tell kids to say Please one time and they learn to use it from then on; it’s a series of reminders over and over and over again until finally you realized that it’s become natural for them. That’s what we want with our dogs. We want to repeat an activity over and over POSITIVELY so that it becomes so natural for them that they don’t think twice about it.
We all have choices, even our best friends – take a second to acknowledge how many great choices your pup makes every day!
