Making a loop with your leash:

Attach leash to training collar (which ever applies). Check to make sure the collar is on properly. Put your right thumb in the open handle at the end of the leash. Then take your left hand and ride it down the leash towards the dog about 12 inches depending on the height of the dog. Take that part of the leash and lay the leash over your right thumb. Close you’re your hand and remove your left hand from touching the leash. Your left hand will only touch the leash while giving a correction or adjusting the loop held in your right hand. The left hand should hang down comfortably by your side. This is the position you will take while working on commands and behavior modification.

Delivering a proper correction:

A correction is a quick pull and release with the leash. Most important is to say “NO” at the same time. Delivering a correct correction takes practice. Be patient you will learn this during your 3 week course of training. If the leash is tight between you and the dog it can be difficult to deliver a correction properly. Stop and change the direction of where you were walking, leave a bit of slack in the leash. Then deliver a correction, saying the word “NO”. The size of the correction varies from size, age and personality. Sometimes a large adult dog will take a smaller correction than a small puppy. Take this entire thing in consideration when picking the right correction for the dog you are working with.

Heel:

Make loop (as shown above) ask the dog to heel and give hand signal at the same time. Hand signal is with your left hand by facing your palm forward and moving forward about six inches. The position you want to keep the dog is on your left side measuring from the seam of your pant leg, six inches from the front of the seam and then six inches from the back of the seam on your pant leg. The dog has twelve inches in which the dog should keep their head. The dog will not know what this means, so now we will show him/her. After giving the hand and verbal command begin walking the dog, even when the dog learns to walk on your left side, the human has to initialize the walk. The dog will not start walking on his/her own. At this point keep the dog on your left side, when he is not, deliver a correction and say the word “NO”, followed by heel.

When the dog is trying to cut you off or go a different direction, change directions and deliver a correction saying “NO”, then give the dog motivation by patting your left side with your left hand to show him where you want him. Continue changing directions until the dog gets where you want him. Every time the dog gets in the right position praise him and tell him he is a good dog.