Did you know that your dog's name is actually a command? A command for attention.
We so often forget this and go about our daily lives saying our dog's name countless times a
day over without expecting any action from them. And then that one time when you need it the
most - when you really need them to turn around and pay attention to you (perhaps for that
recall !), they don't respond.
Perhaps the reason for this is that we've been inadvertently teaching them their name doesn't
really mean anything .... that it doesn't mean we want them to respond to it in any way.
Worth thinking about and taking note of how judicious we are when using our dog's name as
well as what regular maintenance training we do for their name to continue to 'mean' something.
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