Dog Training : How to Train Your Dog to Heel

Training a dog to heel can start off the leash with treats and positive reinforcement before continuing training on the leash during walks. Teach a dog to heel on command with a certified dog trainer in this free video on dog obedience.

Expert: Nancy Cusick
Contact: www.TrainMyDogs.com
Bio: Nancy Cusick is Austin's premier dog trainer and animal handler with more than 12 years of experience.
Filmmaker: Todd Green

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• dogs
• dog training
• obedience training
• dog obedience

[Xials]

What do you mean 'back in the day'? I'm a gentleman and I still carry my gun on the right.

[suppusan1]

once again, expetvillage fails to teach me :(

[lifterguy]

I think there's a good, contemporary, reason to teach your dog to heal on the left. If you live in North America or other parts of the world where people drive on the right, and you walk your dog along a road without a sidewalk, you should be walking on the left, facing traffic. In that situation, I would always want my dog on my left - away front the oncoming cars.

[samarsanderz]

@E4ST3RS Well would you work at your job without a paycheck?

[E4ST3RS]

I don't like the idea of treats, then the dog is obeying you to get a treat, not because they want to please you.

[ShadowCrashed81]

"i'm a professional dog trainer"

oh her parents must be so proud.

[JJGuardian]

There is far too much focus on the technique here. There is nothing wrong with it. Schutzhund training teaches a Schutzhund heel in EXACTLY the same way except they hold the reward (Ball or treat) at the trainers chin to hold the dogs attention on the trainers face at all times.

For heel work I prefer a mix of prey drive stimulation, compulsion training and treats but at the end of the day its which ever technique acheives the communication goal. A leash should be used though to ensure attention

[DustyBoi843]

Its the left so that spent shells don't hit them..not so they wont get shot. Most guns eject shells to the right

[BennyDACHO]

The thing with giving your dogs treats is that it gives you a fake sense of the dog learning faster, but with time it starts to learn slower, and it only obeys you to get that treat.

If you are strict, firm, and use praise with your dog he will obey and respect you much more in the long run, and learn faster eventually.

[BennyDACHO]

I hate when people give their dogs treats to teach them. It's simply the wrong way of teaching a dog. You think the pack leader out in nature gave his subordinates dogs treats? No, of course not. They respected him, and had confidence that his leadership would result in their survival.

This video is useless. I actually did an experiment with my two German shepherds. One was trained strictly with praise and punishment, and the other  one with treats. Guess which dog respected me more?

[Odhinn222]

A waste of time. First off, the dog looks a bit too young to be taught to heel, as it requires a strict correction. Check out the Koehler method. If your someone who wants your dog to think like a human and make him a neurotic, then it is not for you, stay with her method. If you want to think the way your dog thinks, so s/he can understand, then use Koehler.

[desolate2]

@desolate2 *wasn't