Dog Training - Steps for Competition Heeling

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Tyler Muto (me) and my 1 yr old Malinois Dante, reviewing the steps used for teaching a dog competition style heeling.
I filmed this for some colleagues on a web forum as part of a discussion on getting a close heel, but I thought that my clients could find it interesting as well.

Dante was a little sloppy on some of the exercises here because we hadn't practiced in a while, so filming this gave him a much needed brush-up.

To be clear, this is not the type of heel you would use to take the dog for a walk, it is taught for ascetic and competition purposes.

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[beckymarieable]

I loved the video! Can you please tell me how you trained the dog to look at you all the time?

[BuffaloDogTraining]

@beckymarieable I always mark and reward when he is making eye contact. never when he is looking away.

[fbisllc]

why shouldn't the reward come in the position you are teaching, instead the dog moves out in front and you are feeding with both hands while the dogs is OUT of heel position.???

[BuffaloDogTraining]

@fbisllc The reward marker "yes" is a release. he always gets the mark while in position. This is called indirect reward.

[DDDBianca]

You are not teaching him a proper position at heel as well, for everytime his position is different. And most of all TOO far forward. The dog should be leveled with his shoulder to your leg. You should reward him in positition to reinforce this postition, you are now rewarding him totally the opposite... And your rewards are not good enough for this dog, for he finds this heelwork now very boring...

[BuffaloDogTraining]

@DDDBianca I think you are missing the point here. This is not intended to be finished heeling. these are early prep-work exercises that I use. It says right in the description that he is sloppy on a lot of the steps here. Dante is not going to be a competition dog, he is now working in executive protection.

[GlensheeAussies]

I thought the heeling was out of this world fantastic!!!! I wish I had that from my Aussie who is going for her third leg next month. That looked great to me!

[BuffaloDogTraining]

@Liver4me reward based marker training. Thanks for the comment.

[Liver4me]

Great attention.  What was your method to get it????

[BuffaloDogTraining]

@cbazler Thanks for the compliment. "yes" is a very common reward marker used in place of a clicker.