Michael Ellis on Using the Good Command During Heeling

In this video, explains the difference between using the "yes" and "good" commands when teaching your dog how to heel. It is important to note that you can use any words you want when teaching these concepts to your dog as long as you are consistent with your usage.

This clip is one of many that came from Focused Heeling with Michael Ellis. This course is available as an online self-study course.CLICK HERE to sign up!

When people have specific training questions we recommend that they go to our website and post those questions in the ASK CINDY on the front page of leerburg.com. Cindy has been training dogs since she was a teenager and has competed in several dog sports at a regional and national level. She was also a vet tech and owned a boarding/training and grooming business for many years as well as breeding working Dobermans and Belgian Malinois under the kennel name Kaiserhaus. Questions posted to ASK CINDY are answered almost every day. They are also recorded in our systems if a dog owner has additional questions Cindy will review the previous Q&As and this helps her give better feedback and assistance. Ask Cindy!