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12-27-2009, 03:06 PM | #1 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Calgary, AB, Canada
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| Hand signals vs. voice command I am not sure, but are Morkie's and Yorkies better at learning hand signals than word or voice commands? Mine seems to respond to hand motions and signals but doesn't recognize word commands as well.. is this common for these breeds? |
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12-27-2009, 03:55 PM | #2 |
BANNED FOR NOT SENDING A GIFT EXCHANGE GIFT! | hi i'm not sure which is better because denzel listens to both but it depends on what it is i want him to do. If i say sit he will sit but if i say down he wont do anything until i lower my hand he knows that that means for him to lay down if i say up he jumps up so im not sure becuase denzel responds to both. |
12-27-2009, 06:34 PM | #3 |
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| Hm, good question. Jackson seems to do better with hand signals than vocal commands. But one day I tried just asking him "shake" or whatever trick and he did it without the hand signals! So who knows.
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12-27-2009, 06:38 PM | #4 |
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| If you do it enough they will understand voice commands. First do hand signals along with voice commands. When first teaching a new trick, they follow your hand (with treat), so they learn to look at the hand. Once they have done it many many times, they will get the vocal command as well. We are doing no hand signals at all now with Uni. There are just a few she won't do without hand signals.
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12-27-2009, 07:18 PM | #5 |
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| Most dogs understand hand signals faster than voice. When we give voice commands, we may not be consistent with our pitch, loudness, annunciation, etc. That's why the clicker is so effective. |
12-27-2009, 09:20 PM | #7 |
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| I like to start with a voice command along with the hand signal. Many dogs will learn either command if you do it that way. The hand signal can come in very handy if you are in a situation where you need to control your dog but it's noisy and they may not be able to hear you. I think one of the most important ones to teach them it to "watch me". My Aussie has a tendency to fixate on a toy rather than my commands. I have to continually work with her to "watch me". The silly girl doesn't want to miss catching her ball...
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12-27-2009, 09:20 PM | #8 |
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| I like to start with a voice command along with the hand signal. Many dogs will learn either command if you do it that way. The hand signal can come in very handy if you are in a situation where you need to control your dog but it's noisy and they may not be able to hear you. I think one of the most important ones to teach them it to "watch me". My Aussie has a tendency to fixate on a toy rather than my commands. I have to continually work with her to "watch me". The silly girl doesn't want to miss catching her ball...
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12-27-2009, 09:37 PM | #9 |
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| Mine know a few hand signals. The one that i really wanted them to learn was to wait. I usually have them on my desk when I'm working and I wanted to make sure that they didn't always spaz out when I went out to get something. I can just put my finger up without saying anything and neither one of them gets exicted, they just put their heads back down and wait for me to come back into the office. They know the hand signal for sit, spin and high five.
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