How to Train a Dog to "Heel" (K9-1.com)

I just asked my 9 week old husky if he's ready for this and he howled at me then bit my finger

Take a shot everytime she says “good girl”

I love her awkward jumping, run-gallop thing she has goin' on while she follows the treat. hahahah

I just showed this video to my 18 week old puppy. Hopefully he learnt something 🤞

this video helped us immensely, thanks! it's nice that the cute little doggy is a beginner. i mean, u actually get to see a dog learn from scratch. lots of KZhead vid's will demonstrate with a dog that already knows wat to do!? it REALLY helped to see how to deal with a doggy that mite not "get it right" the very first time. thanks again.

I have a pit bull that has mental disability’s, and she is special needs. I was able to teach her this in 8 minutes. All dogs are amazing, no matter what disability they have

Just watching this has trained me. Now anytime my wife says heel I run to her left leg. Thanks.

"good girl, good giiiirl, good girl, good girl, good giiiirl, GREAT girl,

My puppy is 15 weeks old and this worked for her! I've trained her sit,lay,shake,roll over, speak and now heal! Thanks for the video!

Took my 100+ lb great dane/lab mix no time to pick this up at 1.5 years, thank you.

My 10 week old German Shepherd puppy can sit, lie down, stay, come (when whistled), shake and 'leave it.' This is the first vid I've used, she learned it in 8 minutes. This breed is a smart one!

I know how Gipsy feels. I'm starting to realize my wife did the very same thing to me for her trips to the mall.

Thank you for showing how to do this not only with a dog that isn't already trained, but also with positive reinforcement training! So many heel/walking videos I see are heavily focused on a slip lead or a prong. I had started training this a little bit with my dog but the tips to swing wider for a larger dog and to start at phase one and then add movement is really helpful!

This is a great video. Way better than all the other "Heel" videos I've seen on KZhead. I only wish I had seen this earlier.

I have a pitbull who has been in the family for 12 years. However he has not been properly trained at all he learned this in like 10 minutes wow this video helped a lot.

You teach the little things no one else does. It sets your training videos apart. Thanks!

Thank you for this! I’ve been watching all kinds of KZhead videos on how to train my puppy to heel, but none of them have stuck with me like this one.. Your video is so clear & comprehensive - I already know that my puppy will be able to learn this efficiently because I now have such a good grasp of how to train him this command.

To be honest I searched "how to train a dog to heel" many times before but this was the only video that actually explained to me how I was actually supposed to teach it to the dog, great video!

Wish I had learned this method months ago. We’ve been having a difficult time training our 2 yr old shepherd to heel. Can’t wait to try this. Great idea. Thank you!!

i love how you explain each and every step with increased difficulty

Without a doubt for myself this was the BEST video on training a new puppy how to heel!! Thank you so much!!

I'm teaching my B malinois 3month puppy heel with your method and it's working. Slowly but surely. Thank you.

this video helped me understand that you can use the smell of the treat to make them follow the correct movement

Simple straight forward positive training........ good job

Thank you. Your videos are the best and the most professional I've found. The details are clear and precise. They've really helped transform the malamute I've adopted into a companion everyone can love.

My dog is 2 1/2 but it still turned out great and he listened !

I really like this trainer’s videos. She explains technique just enough and clearly, then shows a lot. Other people’s training videos are overproduced and don’t actually show me what to do. I wish this trainer would make more videos for leash training!!

Really clear, effective instructions. My 6-year-old schnoodle was doing step 1 by the third arc and is already walking to and sitting at heel with the arc technique. The trainer helped me realize that I needed to slow down and train my dog step by step. I'd been trying to teach her to heel while walking, and it was confusing her and frustrating me. The tip about not using the leash for guiding or correcting was also very valuable. Thanks so much for sharing your techniques!

My oldest son is in his early 20's and he has type 1 diabetes. But thank God for this piece of article kzhead.infoUgkxibD_L3sDyYENL5CwePCd9plRBqjzw2mw At first he thought he had the flu and was lying down on the bed for three days until his sister took him to the hospital. They took his blood and it was 600. What I do not understand is how he could have gotten it, since no one in the family has it. But he is winning the battle now. This is a good stuff.

Thanks for the video. My boy is getting better. I think it also helps that Gypsy is very smart.

Clear, straight forward and comprehensive. The best I’ve ever seen.

The best ‘heel’ instruction video I’ve seen. This method is so much better then the other one I was doing.

Gypsy's a beautiful moving GSD also! Lovely to watch from the side. She's forward, light, and lofty! Excellent foundation training! Love your videos! Thanks for sharing! :D

Thank you for the lessons, my Australian Cattle dog is picking up on instructions fast. It’s amazing.

I have a 3 month old Belgium shepherd and he is a super fast learner we have now applied your videos for down and heel they are great!!! ❤️ Thanks for doing this!

I love how you broke this down into simple steps.

I’m just watching all these training waiting to get my Doberman.😂😁

Great training! Happy, satisfied and motivated dogs. Love it! Gypsy's gonna be sooooo beautiful when she grows up. My god!

I have had great difficulty teaching my 18w Greek Harehound to heel. Thank you so much! We are making so much progress!

Thanks a lot, it really helped with my dog! He has already known how to walk on lose leash and how to come to heel position...However the walk was a mess and I was frustrated because he was not walking right next to me but always tried to be in front of me. He's a mixed breed boy (he has some bull type dog in him), clever but very stubborn. This is a great method, we have visible results just in 2 days and I'm soooo happy! :)

I've been trying to train my nearly 3 yr old lab this THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO

This completely worked for my dog. Hes 3 years old and did great. All I have to do it say "heel" and he does it.

This worked PERFECTLY my springer spaniel pup is definitely getting the hang of the word use “heel” I’m glad this worked, thanks!

I love your videos, they're very insightful. Dog training and caring has been a passion of mine since I was about 3, and when I got older I was finally able to have my own dog with my own control. It was worth the wait. Positive reinforcement and treats are great ways to build the dog's focus and desire to listen or be trained. Also, never taking "no" for an answer, dogs must learn to "get it" when told a command. A well trained dog is a happy dog. Don't know why I'm telling you this, you really know your stuff.

I am a pretty good trainer; at least with all my past dogs, and others have asked me to help them with their dogs (Eskies, Rotties, Dobermans, German Shepherds, Pit Bulls, blue tick hound etc.) Even volunteer trained at a German Shepherd kennel with Shutzhund trained dogs. I've always had very high success training. My new puppy is a Yakutian Laika. She is the oldest puppy I've ever gotten. She was 12 weeks and 2 days when I flew from Seattle to Dallas and back in 1 day. I let her acclimate the first 2.5 days. Just teaching her her name, and to go outside to potty. Then started with little 5-10 min training sessions throughout the day. She is incredibly smart, she learned sit an a few minutes with ASL sign, and after day 1 she was bored, I added a verbal cue, a month in she's reliable indoors but not outdoors. She will do down, stand, off, most of the time leave it and drop it. Heel is a work in progress but she will do beautifully if you go at a very fast brisk walk. Come is also about 50/50. Forget any of it with distractions outdoors. She is a socialite and just wants to say hi to everyone and every dog. I just started using some German Commands too. She is learning the game of fetch quite well. Brings it right back about 80% now. However, I've never; in my entire life, seen a dog this stubborn, not even huskies. It's part of the breed, if they don't wanna they put the breaks on so you constantly are redirecting to get them to do as asked. My husband just won't use the right words, or hand signals, and that's incredibly frustrating because consistency is everything!. She is incredibly bonded to me in just 1 month and a week, follows me everywhere! Wakes from naps and follows me to next room etc. (more about that in a minute). I take her everywhere with me, she meets dogs on walks a lot, but her only real play sessions were with a 7yr old Mastiff, and a 3 yr old Doberman with his sibling a 2.5 yr old Rottweiler. I hate off leash parks, and people are poisoning dogs in our area at them or bringing in fight dogs to seriously mame the dogs and sometimes kill them. So with Covid it's been extremely hard finding puppy play time. FYI I use baked organic chicken breast and some baked organ meat cut up into small tidbits for her treats, she spit out everything else. She was under weight when I got her home and gained nearly a full pound in 2 days, clearly her litter mates were eating all the food. She isn't a gobbler, she's a grazer, eats a little, plays a little, eats a little more etc. In the 5 weeks I've had her she has doubled in size going from 9lbs4oz to 17.5lbs. Vet says she's incredibly healthy. She's losing teeth and adult ones are coming in. She is now almost 17.5 weeks old. My questions are: 1. I'm having a really hard time getting her to understand stay and her release she just sits there still, no matter what I try. I've never had issues before, but she's very spontaneous and refuses to "want to do it" so far. I've seen your videos as well as others, but those techniques haven't worked at all in a week of trying 8 mini sessions (10 min each) every day. Any other advice or tips would be helpful. 2. Constantly biting the leash, I've made it very very boring, not doing anything, turning my back, walking the other way.....still biting the leash. So ideas with that would be appreciated as well. 3. I know some dogs like to mouth, I know you can't change instinct from what they were bred to do. Her breed was bred to be sled dogs in -57F temps, herd reindeer, hunt, and be part of the Native Siberian Yakuts family and constant companion. I have her on a leash, I've begun harness training with a Wonder Walker front clip, she is fine wearing it until she tries to pull then she bites the front strap ( any tighter I couldn't get a finger under it) and the leash frantically, jumping and really freaking out. If she walks too far behind you she nips at your calves or shoes. She does pull a lot on leash, even after a 15-20 min game of fetch before her walk. Her biting has drawn blood twice on me, so I began "No Bite" and if she bites too hard I'll put a drop of apple cider vinegar in her mouth. That part is getting better, but she bites at her brush incessantly, I treat her when she isn't biting during a grooming/brushing session but it's non-stop. She lets me brush her teeth, wipe her ears, and wipe her pads off but will bite at the wipe sometimes. Any advice besides patience and time? 4. Potty training nightmare! When we brought her home she had bloody diarrhea for 4 days, she passed pine chip bedding she was eating at the breeders, breeder had her on very hard core worming meds as well. I've still never seen a 3 month old puppy walk into their crate and defecate and then lay down in it. We live on the 3rd floor of an apt with elevator access, so against my best wishes we are also using pee pads. Still she'll walk into her crate and poo or pee. I made the mistake of yelling NO! after the first week of her here and now she does not want to be in her crate at all. I have coaxed her with treats, I have given her Kongs full of nummies and chew toys, she has water also, but even if I'm sitting at the door, as soon as I close it, she's screaming bloody murder, biting at the wire, pawing at it, jumping around, and this does not stop, only escalates, at first I tried 5min. waited in between screeches to open door again, I've tried 5min -30min. It still gets louder and louder. She has only slept in her crate 5x now. I thought she had quit with the accidents in her crate until 2 days ago she went pee again and again 3x during one day in her crate. Any advice? I will take her out, she'll go both, I'll walk her etc. she'll go again. As soon as we walk in the door, she goes in the house again within 5 min. She does go to the door now to go out, but sometimes she refuses to go to the bathroom and will just sit there outside (on leash) no matter how much coaxing you do. After 30 min of this, back in the house and she'll pee or poo again. It's almost like she's marking her territory. Any and all help would be appreciated. Thank you.

I am pausing and working with my puppy as you go. This channel is such a huge help, and my border collie has gotten this down just in two hours of work and play in between! Thank you so much

Looking forward to teaching my GSD puppy this. Only 3 more weeks and 3 days to go till she comes home and the training begins! Thanks for sharing!

This video has helped me a lot! My Doberman pup is 11 weeks and knows up to the 2nd step with just 1hour of training! I like the command heel to mean that your dog follows behind or by your side but not pressed against you, which this video does, another reason for this is my pup likes to walk randomly in front of me tripping me up so this will hopefully stop that bad habit and get him to walk next to me in stead! Thanks for the great video this has been a great help! 🐾🐶

This was Helpful. Thank you.

Gypsy: keep dose tweets comin', lady

Thank you SO much for this. I never knew how to start from scratch. You're the only one I found that helped.

This helped me a lot with my Dobermans thank you 🙏🏽

I really love how your using positive reinforcement! There's no need for punishment on aversive collars like e collars, prong, or choke collars since positive reinforcement has been proven to be just as effective (if not more!), and less risky for your dog. Well done!

Thanks I will do this tomorrow (I'm training my dog to be a service dog by myself using Owner Training in only 12 I started my own channel on rescued ☺😊 I love your channel 💞

I have a service dog in training and heel is something he struggles with on turns and all the videos I found used prog collars and reprimanding them by yanking on their leashes to make them yelp and I just couldn’t imagine using fear to teach him to follow me. So thank you for showing such a loving way !! I will be trying it out today :)

Best heel training I've seen. Thank you.

Great video! So informative. I've looked at all your stuff! Quick question: How long do you take before you change phases? Do you train one phase for days until they get it right? Then move onto the next phase, and then eventually onto training the next command? I want to train my dog, but I also don't want to confuse him.

you will have a quick, blessed dog once you watch her training

This very helpful!! My six month old has come, sit, lay down and stay but I've neglected to work on heel and realized I definitely need it when out in public !!

My 6month basenji has understood the concept of heel with this method in less then a min. And basenjis are very very stubborn and hard to train he’s proving everyone wrong! Thank you for this video!

That feel when I tell my dog to heal and he uses Curaga to restore my health to 20,000

Me: Wow this looks like a nice way to teach my dog heel! Also me: Where did you get those pants they look so comfy

Love your video professional and straight to the point without all the flare. Your video looks like real life. And you show the steps. Great video thank you

Wow that’s amazing! Mine is 6 months he’s learning heel right now and he’s doing good! He just graduated yesterday from beginner class and is taking intermediate classes now ♥️

Who else is watching even tho they don’t have a dog😂😭

Love the Jersey/NY accent. "Dawg"

This is the best training video I have ever found thank you 😊

Great video. Gypsy is adorable. We recently rescued a pitty mix and this is my next project. She's already pretty good at sitting and staying. Thanks for taking the time to make the world a better place.

Excellent video. How do you separate ordinary walking nicely on a leash versus competitive heel besides using two different words?

hey this totally worked for my dog! Best vid I have seen about it!

Best, simple and most straightforward video out there... 🇬🇧

I LOVE THIS METHOD!! I've tried others but finally my pitbull/lab mix understands what to do! Thanks so much.

my puppy is really short right now, not sure how to do this without keep bending down

first, oh my god gypsy is so cute! and great video! Really appreciate it with my new puppy.

loving the raindeer prance. beautiful pup.

Thanks for the video, my German shepherd puppie with just 49 days, has learnt the basic step1 heel command in 1 day.

Cripes a lot of trolls on here...I followed this video with my english bulldog starting at 10 weeks...he is 16 weeks now and no treats are needed...he plops his but right down at every corner too....Well done and thanks

My Rottweiler learned this in like 9 minutes. I’m surprised 😳

So patient you are I am not that tough to do when you don’t have patience good job

Definitely one of the best dog training videos if not the best simple and easy straight to the point thank you mam ☺️

Nice video! Thank you for sharing :) What is the best age to start training this command? What age does Gipsy has here?

Ah, there's the confusion as I see it now. People here have different goals to teach their dogs to heel. Some people commenting have experience with military/police, or competition training and there is the novice, just a simple pet owner who only wants learn the basics. If my little puppy stays in the yard and doesn't bolt out into the street when called I'm gonna call that a successful heel. If I'm able to respond to commands reasonably well as many of these experts suggest I'll be happier. For now I'm gonna take it one heel at a time. 😀🐺👣 Thanks for a Great video. ❤️💯

This is genius I’ve tried teaching my dog to walk on a leash and no video has helped a friend suggested maybe begin with heel and once again I couldn’t get him to do it but this method is working. We haven’t progressed to leash yet but at least now he knows what position to be in. I am now hopeful he will be able to walk in public spaces one day.

My dog has been leash-pulling pretty hard. I'm so glad for this!

Haha, I've been training a toy poodle and i had to break my back to give him the treat in heel!

My 3 boxer are so food motivated they will sit for a booger sized piece of cheese. I can't wait to try these methods. My biggest issue is the jumping on people! Friendly to a fault. I'm sure we are to blame as we let them jump on & kiss us. Great vid 👍🏻 subbed

Thanks for such a great and professional training video. I can’t wait to see the rest of all your videos!! 👍🏻🐶

I got ahead with my dog's training after reading Found out how to stop my dog from jumping on people. Learned that you quick turn your back on the dog when they jump and leave the room through the door. When dog finally stops jumping you give him a treat.

Love the dogs name

Good girl counter: x400 million. Nice instructive video though=).

Ahhh this looks like it might work for my girl! Such a simple concept but I hadn’t thought of teaching her the place of heel before than the action of it. Brilliant!

You are awesome. First time I will be teaching a dog any commands and I am sooo happy I found your video where you actually started with a newbie dog that did not know the command. I think it's a waste of time to watch a video to teach HEEL with a dog that already knows the command. Nothing to learn from that! Thank you!!!!

At what age is it appropriate to start training a puppy? I'm getting a German shepherd next month

What type of dog?

Explaining why it’s called heel was super helpful I’ve been positioning my hand wrong thank you!

Finally some actually training that can be observed vs already trained dogs! Get to see what my dog does and how to correct it. This is extra nice to watch since my boy dog Prince looks just like Gypsy! Thank you!!!

Is there a specific reason why are we keeping the "heel" on the left side?

What food u give to your dogs while training??

The best video I've found on training to walk to heel

Ok ty very much, my staff learn in 5 min, already does it well outdoor and it s very useful because she is nearly never on leash, and for car , this command is gold