Why you should train your dog to respond to you from afar.
It makes sense that most of the time, we train our dogs at close range. Our dog is right next to or in front of us when we give the cue to heel, sit, stay, down or wave. Calling our dogs to come is often done from a distance, but that’s not the case for most of the behaviors we ask our dogs to perform.
However, there are benefits to teaching dogs to respond to a variety of cues even if we’re a bit (or even a lot) farther away. If we haven’t done this kind of distance training, our dogs are very unlikely to do what we ask in that situation. Getting a reliable response at a distance requires training at a distance, and lots of it.
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