Train a Dog to Greet People

Video Transcript

" Hi this is Elise McMahon for Expert Village.com and in this video series we are talking about taking your dog for a walk. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at www.canineheadstart.com. So we’ve gone through the first steps of walking your dog and what we are going to do now is we are going to talk about how to handle a situation when you are walking your dog down the street and you meet a person. What we would like ideally is for the dog to walk up nicely and calmly to the person and sit to be greeted. What we don’t want is the dog to be dragging the handler down the road and jumping all over the person on the street. You can imagine a number of different situations where this would be highly undesirable. So we are going to be using Tai again here and we will be walking down to meet another person. If Tai is pulling me I am going to stop. If he goes to jump on the person I am going to turn around and walk him away and we will repeat this until he learns to greet the person properly. Tai ready? Let’s go. Wait. Good boy. Can you sit for me Tai? Good boy. Tai is throwing a little something extra in here. Good boy. Good job. Okay, let’s go. So that way you know you are not going to have angry neighbors or knocked down children. To have the dog learn how to walk up politely and say hi to a person."