#124: Training Eye Contact

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

Dogobedience, Dogtraining, Hobbies, Kids & Family, Leisure, Showdogtraining, Puppytraining, Dogbehavior, Dogagility, Pets & Animals

4.7 • 677 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss why training eye contact is so fulfilling for humans, the other benefits of training eye contact as a behavior, whether dogs hate making eye contact, the drawbacks to training eye contact, how you can make sure your dog's behavior is "voluntary," situations where eye contact might be helpful, and how you can avoid training problems associated with too much eye contact training.

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0:00.0	probably the strongest thing going for eye contact as a behavior is that when your dog looks up
0:06.6	at your face makes eye contact with you it really feels like your dog is paying attention to you
0:11.8	and that's really reinforcing for humans we like nothing more than to feel like we're relevant relevant. Hey there, fellow training nerds. You're listening to drinking from the toilet. And I'm
0:36.5	your host, Hannah Branigan, teacher,
0:38.6	trainer, podcaster, and author of the book, Awesome Obedience, and its companion, awesome
0:43.4	obedience, the field guide, both of which you can pick up anytime you like and get delivered
0:47.8	right to your house from clickertraining.com. This week we're going to talk about training
0:53.1	for eye contact as a behavior. This is a behavior
0:56.6	that's included in a lot of trainers' foundation skills list, sometimes higher up on the
1:02.4	priorities and sometimes a little bit lower. But what do we even mean by eye contact? Why might you
1:07.3	want to train it? And are there any drawbacks that you might be concerned about?
1:12.5	I don't want to give away any spoilers, but there might be. But first, I got to send a shout out to
1:18.5	these awesome folks for supporting the podcast on Patreon. So thank you to Jan W. Corderoy Pony,
1:25.4	which is the best name ever, Mari R, Elaine B. Ainsley S. and Nikki B.
1:32.2	You guys are awesome. If you'd like to support the podcast, get your questions answered and get
1:37.1	access to our super secret extra podcast episodes. You can go to patreon.com slash DFTT. That's the initials for drinking from the toilet in case that
1:48.9	wasn't perfectly clear. So that's patreon.com slash dFTT. Okay, so let's talk about eye contact.
1:56.4	When I'm talking about eye contact in a dog training context, what I mean or the way that I'm
2:03.6	thinking about it is when your dog visually targets your face.
2:09.1	It doesn't have to be like eyeball to eyeball pupil to pupil alignment, right?
2:13.9	But I'm looking for your dog to visually target your face to look up at your face. And more
2:22.3	specifically, for my purposes, I'm particularly interested in your dog looking up at your face and
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