A perfect recall command is the dream of every dog owner! Follow our tips and tricks and your dog will come every time you call them! Teaching your dog to come when called is a lot of work, but if you train enough, you and your dog will live the best life possible!

To start this process, we recommend using a leash and collar. We slowly work on conditioning your dog to learn what the word “come” means. Make sure you start off with short distances, leash in hand, and in easy low stimulation environments. Over time, you can start to make this more difficult! Being further away, increasing the distractions, and dropping the leash are all ways to make sure your dog really understands and advances on their come command.

Once you feel your dog has a good understanding of the come command, we recommend you introduce a long line. We sell 50 foot and 100 foot long lines to our clients, but some clients make their own! The goal of a long line is just to keep your dog safe from running away. If you say come, and your dog ignores you, you can safely stop them if they run away.

It is important to treat the long line like it is invisible. This means that you don't pick up the long line and reel them in to you like a fish. If they try to run away from you, you can simply step on the long line and give them a correction. Eventually we will work away from the long line, but do not rush this process.

Speaking of corrections, let's get into more details on what this is supposed to look like. You need to first make sure your dog has a good understanding of any commands before you decide to correct them. Our come command correction is designed to remind a dog to walk towards us. If they completely ignore us or run away from us when we say “come”, we will first say “no” while walking towards the dog. Once we get to them, we will pick up the leash with two hands. Walking backwards, we will give 2 tugs towards us pairing the tugs with a verbal “come” and then add one more tug up for sit. You do not need to take them back to their original position like we do with our stay commands.

When we say off leash, we typically focus on three main areas. Off leash in the house, off leash in a fenced yard, or off leash in an unfenced area away from home. Obviously some of those locations are harder than others! In order to work on the come command in unfenced areas or at dog parks, we recommend using E collars for many dogs. E collars are completely safe if used and acclimated correctly. We do not use E collars on untrained dogs, and you need to make sure your dog knows everything before you try one out. The acclimation process does take some time, but once your dog feels comfortable wearing one, it is an amazing tool that can get your dog the freedom they deserve!

We recommend Dogtra e collars and our favorite is the Dogtra Arc. You can read about it here: https://amzn.to/45yXDdG

They come with a vibrate and a correction function. The vibrate is used for most dogs, and it represents the come command. We will get our dogs used to feeling the vibrate and understand that it means to come back to their owner!! On the other hand, E collars also have a correction function. This is not a shock, it is a muscle stim that is highly adjustable! We always recommend trying the collar on yourself before putting it on your dog so you can see that it does not hurt!

Where you use an E collar or not, you need to make sure you are following the most important rule! Be 100% consistent! You need to follow a good proofing plan, practice everyday, and make sure you are able to discipline your dog if they decide to not listen to you! By doing that, your dog will have the perfect recall command!

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:16 Need To Start On Leash!
00:44 Use Excitement!
01:21 Use Of A Long Line
02:12 How To Correct
03:42 End On A Success!
04:27 Advancing The Come Command!
05:16 E-Collars!
08:44 Be 100% Consistent!
09:40 Train Proactively
10:18 Closing Thoughts

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