![]() Roll Over-Fingertips towards the dog, rotating wrist in a "rolling" motion(a little circle) Switch(sides)-Swinging whichever pointer finger around behind me and back to my side. ![]() Like luring the dog to my side, except they know to turn around, sit, and look up at me when they get there. ![]() On my Left(DTA's lessons call this "Get In")-left pointer finger out in front of me, the move it back to my side. Wait-Usually they're at my left when I ask them to wait, so I have my hand dangling normally, but I turn my palm to them and give the verbal command. Spin-I start out having to trace a rather large circle with my finger, but I gradually decrease it until I'm just tracing a tiny circle with my pointer finger. After the dog is matched, signals are easy for them to pick-up if the new handler want's to use them.īut if I am asking her to raise from a down to a sit, then a have my palm flat facing up, and raise it, as if I had a book on my hand and was raising it a few inches.ĭown-Palm facing down, "pushing" the air down. it's when I work with other dogs that either have different signals or none at all that I get confused! For example, service dogs shouldn't learn hand signals (any targeting/luring should be faded out completely), becuase you never know if their future partner will be able to give signals - verbal needs to be solid. I have a lot of hand/body signals, but most started as targeting/luring, or synchronizing, so they are pretty easy to keep track of for my own dog. I use my arms to show him what I want his front paws to do (he mirrors my movements) - we're still working on this one. 'Cover', I sort of salute with bent fingers. 'Roll over' I 'roll' my hand a couple of times. Run out in front of me until I tell you to stop, I use my arm up high and 'push' forward. ![]() head in 'that' direction a little bit, I do a little point with my finger, arm still at my side. 'Down' is the opposite of sit - palm down, fingers bend toward ground. 'Sit' is the North American one shown above, but I fade it down to just a little finger-raise. 'Stay' I just show a flat hand for a moment, at the dog's eye level from whatever position they are in. For 'speak', I open and close my fingers like a mouth.įor 'wait', I swing my hand/arm along the line that I don't want crossed. ![]()
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