https://www.k9ofmine.com/how-to-teach-a-dog-to-heel/ Your Dog Care Resource For a Healthier, Happier Canine! Wed, 27 Oct 2021 13:53:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.k9ofmine.com/how-to-teach-a-dog-to-heel/#comment-2057637 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:56:35 +0000 https://www.k9ofmine.com/?p=2021094#comment-2057637 This is great info. I’m still working on a “proper heal position” with my almost 3 year old border collie/flat coated retriever Kirra. I can guide her to the heal position with treats and praise, but she consistently will not do it on her own on command. Her favorite place to be during training sessions is on my left side, but with her butt turned about 70° to the right so she’s not directly in front of me, but angled in a way so she’s facing me. Even when i lure her into the heal position, she will ignore my stay comand after about 30 seconds which she’s normally very good with staying in any other position and moves into her angled butt, facing me position. I’ve tried to correct this by moving her back and putting her on a sit, stay, and reiterating the heal command and giving a treat, but the results are always the same. I love how attentive she is during training and the way she feels the need to be making eye contact and facing me, and i think shes doing this to show me how her full attention is on me and i don’t want to reprimand her for her behavior in this way because being that she is a very high energy dog, i appreciate when she makes a point to let me know that she is giving me her full attention. Do you have any ideas on how i can carefully correct this issue without disrupting all the other training that we’ve accomplished so far? Thanks!

]]> https://www.k9ofmine.com/how-to-teach-a-dog-to-heel/#comment-2026635 Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:25:09 +0000 https://www.k9ofmine.com/?p=2021094#comment-2026635 When do you *say* heel? I didn’t catch that in my read. Thanks for the article!

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