Comments on: Check Your Verbal Cues http://stalecheerios.com/blog/training-tips/check-your-verbal-cues/ a serial for positive animal training Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:46:10 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: payday advance loans http://stalecheerios.com/blog/training-tips/check-your-verbal-cues/comment-page-1/#comment-4351 payday advance loans Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:38:27 +0000 http://stalecheerios.com/blog/?p=942#comment-4351 Thank you for the tips, I have really been trying to train my dogs, and I thought they were responding to the verbal cues but I think that they are more intune with the hand guestures I am making. Thanks for the clarification. Thank you for the tips, I have really been trying to train my dogs, and I thought they were responding to the verbal cues but I think that they are more intune with the hand guestures I am making. Thanks for the clarification.

]]> By: Service Dog Sawyer http://stalecheerios.com/blog/training-tips/check-your-verbal-cues/comment-page-1/#comment-984 Service Dog Sawyer Tue, 19 May 2009 15:40:37 +0000 http://stalecheerios.com/blog/?p=942#comment-984 Thanks so much for these exercises to test verbal cues! We were just talking about this in our SD training class last weekend...and we were having trouble explaining. :) Thanks so much for these exercises to test verbal cues! We were just talking about this in our SD training class last weekend…and we were having trouble explaining.

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]]> By: trickponies http://stalecheerios.com/blog/training-tips/check-your-verbal-cues/comment-page-1/#comment-976 trickponies Tue, 19 May 2009 02:22:00 +0000 http://stalecheerios.com/blog/?p=942#comment-976 Very interesting. I've thought about this with my horses. For example when I ask my horse to shake hands I want him to respond to the verbal "shake hands" - not when I accidently drop a brush infront of him and reach to pick it up (I could end up with a hoof in the head). But other times I do want him to respond to only my body language. For instance I have taught him to say "No" by shaking his head. I don't want to have to use a verbal command for this trick because it ruins the fun of the trick - I want him to shake his head when I subtly tilt the top of a crop towards his ear. I think its a great idea to test each "verbal" cue by not moving at all. Video taping yourself would probably help too. I wonder how many weird quirky movements I make each time I ask for a specific thing from my horse. Very interesting. I’ve thought about this with my horses. For example when I ask my horse to shake hands I want him to respond to the verbal “shake hands” – not when I accidently drop a brush infront of him and reach to pick it up (I could end up with a hoof in the head). But other times I do want him to respond to only my body language. For instance I have taught him to say “No” by shaking his head. I don’t want to have to use a verbal command for this trick because it ruins the fun of the trick – I want him to shake his head when I subtly tilt the top of a crop towards his ear.

I think its a great idea to test each “verbal” cue by not moving at all. Video taping yourself would probably help too. I wonder how many weird quirky movements I make each time I ask for a specific thing from my horse.

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