Sentences with phrase «verbal signal»

As part of the training, you teach the dog hand and / or verbal signals for each behavior.

Many trainers feel hand signals are easier for dogs to learn that verbal signals anyway, but having a dog that responds to either is ideal.

We all know that a growl is a warning, and a yelp is a sound of distress, but there are so many verbal signals in between those two sounds, and they all communicate different messages.

TIP: If you are working with a dog that you are not sure of their past or if you are a so - called «balanced dog trainer» (meaning a trainer who uses both, the clicker training principles as well as corrections), make sure that you are using a different verbal signal for withholding a reward than the signal that was used for corrections.

The advanced level will concentrate more on hand and verbal signals for fetching, staying, sitting and walking at heel.

This is sort of like making the largest button on the TV do anything other than turn it on: if you mix your visual and verbal signals you're going to confuse people.

Some kids do well with a timer, others just want the verbal signal.

To do so, behavioral biologists used hand and verbal signals to ask a captive bottlenose dolphin, Merina, to retrieve either a toy or her calf, Windley, from a few meters away, in a seawater lagoon.

Younger students are less familiar with social cues and might require a verbal signal to accompany the nonverbal cues.

Have her sit by using a hand and a verbal signal, but do not give a food reward.

A dog is more likely to respond if you use both hand a verbal signals rather than only a verbal command.

Regardless of if you require tension for one of your tasks (guiding, forward momentum, etc), keeping a loose leash should be the default, with tension occurring only on cue (whether a verbal signal, hand signal, physical cue or equipment - based signal).

Be careful to separate the verbal signal from the hand signal - if you say the word at the same time as giving the signal, your dog will focus on the familar hand signal and won't likely notice the word.

Since dogs communicate primarily through body lanuage, the hand signals were very easy - the verbal signals take a bit more effort.To make it easier, you are going to connect the new word (Sit, Down, or Up) to the already familiar hand signal for each behavior.

Adding Verbal Signals Once your dog is responding reliably to your hand signals, you can teach him the verbal signal for each behavior.

It's important to remember that this verbal signal serves for one activity only.

As your pooch scours room to room, occasionally let out a verbal signal.

The dog and owner then work together to get around, using «lots of hand and verbal signals».

As Fido scours room to room, occasionally let out a verbal signal.

As Rover scours room to room, occasionally let out a verbal signal.

• Use nonverbal and verbal signals to show that you're listening.