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How to teach your dog to look to you (literally!) for direction.

by Mardi Richmond

Before (top): As soon as Lilo spots the geese grazing on a lawn about 200 feet away, she becomes fixated and starts pulling hard toward them. After (bottom): Lilo has learned that looking away from the geese and at Sandi’s face is highly rewarding. She offers the “Look” faster than Sandi can deliver the treats!

When I first saw Laney, she was across the parking lot from the agility class I was teaching. Laney was a spinning, barking mass of black and white dog. Whenever the dogs in my class moved, Laney would leap in the air and start spinning and barking again. Her person, Bonnie Vogt, looked confused and distressed.

“I had no idea what I was getting myself into,” Vogt told me at a later date. She’d met Laney just a few days earlier at a dog camp. Laney was attending the camp with her foster person and Vogt took a fancy to the young dog. The attraction was obvious; Laney was…

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