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Summary: When leash training your dog, the left turn movement keeps your dog on the inside of the turn. Learn how to do left turn exercises with your dog with tips from a dog trainer in this free dog care video.
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"Once your dog is consistently moving with you and staying parallel with their movement to yours, you want to start working on harder turns. To this point, you've kept your turns fairly easy, just gentle arcs, and I'll start with that and then you'll see me progress into tighter turns. There are a couple of exercises you can use to do this and you will see these demonstrated. Good. So we're starting with the gentle arc, heel. Good, good, good. And then I'll start tightening the turns. I'm spiraling in making the turn smaller and smaller. Good. And then I'll start coming out wider and my goal is to keep this position the complete exercise. Good."
eHow Article: Dog Leash Training: Left Turn Exercise