Having a dog that will shake hands with people is always especially endearing, like German Shepherds, Pekingese and other dogs with high intelligence, when you reach over, they will also be very close and take the initiative to extend their paws to you, instantly bringing them closer to each other. But not every dog has this kind of perception, and many breeds of dogs need some professional training to achieve this effect. Here’s how to train your dog to shake hands with this action. We use food and performance to do this dog handshake training, both at the same time, to enable you and the dog, to achieve good communication and communication effects, and can encourage the owner to increase confidence and dog communication. Training steps first of all you have to make the training more interesting, so that the dog receives positive information, very important advice is that when training the dog, no matter what action to do, do not grab the dog’s body parts, it is best to make the dog’s thinking and their behavior unified, every step of the dog’s behavior to your requirements and instructions, gradually have a correct response, this time you have to immediately give them a reward, tell them is right. So, teach them to shake hands, I do not go to grab his front feet, because if I go to grab his front feet, although his front feet move, but his brain does not move, what we have to do now is to make his brain move. Dogs are generally what they can’t get with their mouths are going to use their feet. In my hand is the dog’s favorite snack, it must be very eager to eat. I now hold the snack in my hand and put it in front of the dog’s nose, and my other hand is ready to shake hands with it. I’m waiting for him to lift his front foot and you can see he can’t get the treat out of my hand, well, he moves his front foot just a little bit, just a small improvement though. We continued to lure the dog with food and the dog lifted his front feet again, okay, to give them an immediate food reward. It’s a small improvement, but it’s still something to encourage. We continue the training again. They have to give praise every time they do it right, and say good, praise mantra every time. Slowly, he learned that he could get food by shaking hands, and every time he lifted his front foot to my hand, I had to say yes, yes, yes, and now he basically associated the action of shaking hands with food. I put the food behind me this time and hid it, and the dog didn’t see the food but still lifted his front feet up into my hand. We can wait until they have this behavior and then give them food to eat. Then wait a little longer for them to shake hands and give them a snack to eat. When they do a good job, the next step is to add the password, we can say so, shake hands, the dog will immediately put the front foot on your hand, and then after many times of training, you can remember and learn the action of shaking hands. Note that must have patience, do not scold, timely reward is very important!
