How To establish Good eye Contact
Sit on the floor and have a fistful of treats in your closed fist. Hold your fist out in front of you, say nothing (the hardest part!) they will try lots of different behaviours to get to the treats. What you have to do is wait until you get the behaviour you want. Keep your eyes fixed on your dog’s face then the second they glance up at you say, good and give them a treat from your hand. Don’t push it, if they only glance at your chest/upper torso then say good and treat, as with all training to get what we want can take patience. As the repetitions continue, we can raise the criteria moving from a torso glance to eye contact.
Let the dog finish each treat then move your fist to your front and repeat.
We need three rules for this and in fact for all dog training.
