[deonk1]

Drop it was the first thing I ever taught Harley. I neglected "come" and regret it now. One thing I did teach him was "go home" when we are walking, if I say that he goes straight up the stairs and waits at a door, I always say it at my door step, but I figure if he got lose I could yell that and he'd run up the first doorstep he finds and wait for me.

There really are so many vital cues, that make life easy, a lot of people used to criticize me for doing so much training with my dog because he's a "pet" or my "baby" and I'm a "mean mommy", but he LOVES it, today we started shaping heel, and now he walks beside me looking at me almost the whole time. I look at it this way if I can teach my dog 20-30 vital cues I know he'll listen to me when there is an emergency.

I think third place goes to "ici" I've taught him "ici" means come jump up my knee and into my arms. I've already used that in an emergency situation in puppy class where a large retriever thought Harley's toy was more interesting than his and raced Harley for it I was able to call him off the toy to me, where as "come" means come sit at my feet.