Keegan surprised me the other day when I blurted out "okay" thinking out loud "that's gotta be annoying" as he went to charge after Daizy who was in retrieve mode chasing her favourite Air Kong ball.
To my surprise, he stopped on a dime, spun and with a happy, happy face b-lined back to me and sat front.
"Okay" is usually my reorienting word when we transition into a new exciting space. I learned this from Leslie McDevitt's work "Control Unleashed". The mechanics of the cue are EXACTLY what Kee did but NOT in the usual context.
Anyways...it made me think... just because we THINK we're teaching our dogs a cue to mean one thing to us....it is wise to NOTE what it actually means to the dog :)
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