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If an owner wishes along with using verbal commands to control their animal, they can also use hand commands as well.  When it comes to teaching your dog the various different kinds of dog-training hand commands, you will in the beginning need to use verbal commands also.  In this article, we look at just one of the ways in which a dog owner can teach such commands to their dog.

Certainly, teaching your dog hand signals is very simple and most dogs will find them very easy to understand.  But in order to get started on training them you will need a few treats, which you can provide to your dog as a reward for getting what, you have asked (signalled) of them right.  

As mentioned before it is crucial that when you are first teaching your dog to obey hand rather than verbal commands you use the verbal ones as well.  It is important that before you start the training you decide exactly what hand signal will represent what verbal command.  Only once, you have decided which signal represents which verbal command can you then start your dog’s training.  

When you first start your dogs hand command training you will need to say the word and show them very deliberately the hand movement at the same time.  This you will need to repeat several times to them before they start to understand what it is that you would like them to do.  Immediately you notice that they have reacted as you begin to raise your hand and say the word then this is the time that they should be rewarded.

It is important that you continue to use the verbal and hand commands for some time, but very slowly you start to voice the commands far less and use hand signals more.  At this stage, you should now start to only reward your dog when they actually respond just to the hand commands rather than when you say the word as well.  It is important that you do not eliminate the verbal commands straight away, but rather gradually eliminate them.  In the beginning, it is a good idea to do half the training when you do the verbal and hand commands together, and the other half just using the hand commands on their own.  

After a period of time when they have begun to purely respond to your hand commands then you can start beginning to eliminate the food rewards also.  It is crucial that you do not stop providing such treats as soon as they start responding to hand commands, but gradually eliminate them and instead offer your dog praise instead.

When you are teaching your dog to respond to hand commands rather than verbal ones it is best that you start of with the basics.  So therefore, you should spend time teaching them the hand signals relating to sit, stay, come and down before you actually try anything a little more difficult.

Actually getting advice on the right way dog training hand commands should be done is easy.  There are plenty of sites on the internet today that can offer lots of practical advice and tips.  Plus there are plenty of books and videos, which can help you with training your dog to respond to such hand signals.