Why Your Dog Doesn't Respond to Your Commands.

Once we have our dog performing the action with our physical cue, it is then time to give the behavior a command. The command can be physical or verbal. In order for your dog to learn the command, you must say or perform the command and then show your dog the physical cue.

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First be warned: A common mistake that people make is when they decide to link the behavior to a command, they will deliver the command while they are giving the dog the physical cue. If you pair (overshadow) your physical cue with your command as stated earlier, the physical will override the command and become the only cue for the behavior.

An example of this could be as simple as saying “Good boy” (or the marker that trainers would prefer, “yes”) simultaneously to feeding the dog the reward. By mixing these two actions together, the verbal marker will not have any relevance in the dog’s mind.

If we want the dog to learn the command, then it is important to make sure that the command (verbal or physical) precedes the physical cue by a split second. It must be predictable to the dog. So, the process becomes: command, motivate, mark, and reward, in that order.

• First say sit (command).
• Then you lift your hand with the treat (motivate).
• Once the dog's butt hits the ground, you either give the reward within the first second or you mark and then reward.
• You will continue to use the physical cues until the dog beats you to it. Meaning, if you say sit and before you lift your hand—the dog is already sitting.

This process is the same even if you want to teach a service dog to perform a specific command based on an involuntary human behavior conducted by the person with the disability. For example, you’re training a service dog to nudge his handler when his handler reaches high levels of stress, such as with a veteran suffering from PTSD. First you would need to figure out what the veteran’s involuntary behavior is. For this example, we will say that the veteran looks up and starts to breathe heavily. Once we know this, then that will become the command for the behavior. The next step would be to present a physical cue that can get the dog to nudge your leg (which will be transitioned to the veteran later), let’s say tapping your own leg works for this dog. Now the process would go as follows:

• First look up and breathe heavily (the command).
• Then you would tap on your leg to get the dog to nudge your leg (motivate).
• Once the dog nudges you, you either give the reward within the first second or you mark and then reward.
• You will continue to use the physical cues until the dog beats you to it. Meaning, you look up and breathe heavily and before you tap your leg—the dog is already nudging you.

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