Dogs are incredible animals capable of learning a wide variety of commands in order to please us (and get some treats in the meantime). Among the commands that they can learn we find the one to walk next to us, very useful and beneficial if we want to take it loose in some places and not be in any danger.
In this article on our site we are going to offer you some tips so you know how to teach my dog to walk beside me step by stepusing positive reinforcement as a basic tool of our site.
Remember that positive reinforcement greatly improves the animal's perception and speed of learning. Keep reading:
Of course, before starting you should know that the fact that your dog walks ahead of you does not mean that he is dominant, simply that he intends to enjoy the walk in a relaxed way, sniffing and discovering new stimuli.
Teaching the command for the dog to walk next to you will be essential to make it not run away on an outing but that doesn't mean that you have to take your dog by your side constantly, you must allow him to express himself freely and enjoy himself as any animal would.
On our site we only use positive reinforcement, a technique recommended by professionals that allows us to quickly assimilate what we want to teach our dog. Let's start the process getting treats for dogs or various snacks, if you don't have any you can use frankfurters. Cut them into small dice.
Let him sniff and offer him a, we're ready to go!
Now that he has tried a treat that he likes and motivates him, let's go down to the street to start training. Once the dog has relieved himselfwe will start training him to walk with us, we recommend that you find a quiet and isolated area
Choose how you want to ask him to walk with you:
- together
- junt
- stecken
- heel
- au pied
- xunto
The process is very simple: we are going to take a candy, we will show it to him and we will call him with the chosen word: "Gus together!".
When the dog approaches us to receive it we will continue walking at least one meter with the treat and we will offer it to him. What are we doing? We try to get the dog to associate walking near us with receiving a treat.
It will be basic and fundamental to repeat the procedure regularly so that the dog assimilates it and relates it correctly. It is a very simple command that can be learned easily, the difficulty falls on us and the desire we have to practice it.
Remember that not all dogs are going to learn the command equally quickly and that is that the time we dedicate to teaching a dog to walk beside us step by step will vary depending on age, predisposition or stress. However, positive reinforcement will help the dog assimilate it better and faster.
