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Originally Posted by Rosamburg  What kind of attention are you looking for? Competition based? We start backwards against a fence. We have the dog in the basic postion (sitting next to you) we then maintain total eye contact. We then take a step or two backwards. When the dog does this we give a break command which is the cue for the dog to play. You can start just playing with the dog as the reward though we generally use a tug as the reward. We build up to taking a number of steps backwards while the dog is maintaining eye contact. Forward heeling then becomes much easier. |
Thank you! This is very helpful. I actually taught my older dog to heel backward, and he's much more focused going backward than forward. I did teach the forward heel first, but I never thought of doing it this way to initially teach the heel. I love learning new ways to train!