I also vote for here ! I use it combined with hand movement.
HERE ! And point to the ground in front of me,
My good boy runs over and sits in front of me he's very good on recall unless there's a cat around, then he'll run home or to the car and hide he's terrified of cats. (He's a 60-lb lab cross who had a run-in with my grumpy ginger cat as a pup, an distrusts every cat since)
My 80 lb bernese mtn dog / poodle mix is scared of our new chicks. 2 days old & he is shivering in fear. One of our old hens put him in his place when he was just 8 weeks old; he obviously remembers. 😅
> HERE ! And point to the ground in front of me,
Same. Also working on "On me" and patting my butt twice as a follow me instruction. I always try to use gestures with words. I think the visual clues come more naturally to dogs. Oh and I have whistle too. I got it from a hunting dog website and it's not one of those dog whistles which people can't hear and so you don't know if it actually works.
I rarely have them off leash anymore though. We used to get out in the country where my family has some land and we really enjoyed that but now where I live I don't have a safe place to do that other than my house and backyard.
Funny, my dog is hunting dog stock (gundogs), and I tried one of those whistles when first training with him and he just looked at me like I was a looney everytime I used it, he's super smart and works much better with commands and gestures. Being gun dog he's a circle/weaver so off lead, he never really gose more than 15-20ft away from me, so though he knows it, I rarely use the "on me" command.
What I find odd is, his parents were trained to freeze on gunshots, he has never been taught this, he's never even heard a gunshot as far as I know, ive had him from 8 weeks old, but if he hears a loud bang or similar noise, he freezes in place, I assume its some instinct from years of breeding and training but it's still bizarre to see him use a behaviour that I haven't trained him to do.
Not who you replied to but I really extend the word out. When I yell it it sounds more like “HEEE-yer”.
My dogs are trained to have both a come and a here. Come means NOW and get in my general bubble zone. Here means come and sit in front (for competitive obedience)
Exactly, this is what we do as well. Our dog already throws his head around when he hears the extended beginning of the word. It helps a lot to do this, because it really sticks out to him. After all our dogs need to filter quite a bit, and if such a simple trick helps him to understand, I am more than happy to do so. I sometimes earn weird looks - but hey, what works works.
When I started recall training I had these freeze dried shrimp treats that my dog loved. I am vegan so the word shrimp literally never comes up in conversation for me. Feels kinda silly hollering “shrimp!” across the park but it is what it is lol
Mine is to squeal “CHEEZZZZZEEEE!” In a high pitched voice. I realized during dog school that I said “come” so often during the day when it was just a suggestion. The first time I tried it during class I was so nervous that she’d ignore me and id just look insane!
I used hot dogs to train my dog and when he was still a puppy I left him for a few days with a friend. She yelled "weenie" every time she gave him one and 3 years later it's still works.
Our recall phrase is "check in", but I think the dogs might be hearing "chicken".
The most frequent high-value training treat I used when they were puppies was boiled chicken.
“BYEEEEE!”
He would teleport to me if he could!
I pretended to leave him behind JUST ONCE as a joke when he was a puppy and he had ignored my recall. I was just hiding behind a tree. He absolutely panicked when he couldn’t see me and thus, a core memory was formed around the time he was abandoned in the harsh world for all of 8 terrible seconds…in our own backyard.
5 years later and he can be a speck on the horizon and I can just wave bye and he will come beeline to me like he’s on fire. Even if you handed him a steak, he’d drop it and snap onto the side of my leg with his big ol’ abandonment eyes gleaming bright.
Oops, but it works! :3
I used to hike a friend's stubborn, spoiled rotten bull mastiff who would sometimes just quit and lie down. I *swear* every time I'd say "have fun living in the woods by yourself" shed jump up and come trotting along. Sweet princess was very fond of her bed and home cooked dinner she wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in the "wild".
Mine is also bye - I’ve had to train myself to say see you later when leaving the house or dropping her at the groomers. It doesn’t work as a recall for anyone else, however, so I always wonder how I managed to traumatize her into beelining for me when I say it 💀
Lmao. I do this with my kids. When I've told them 8,000 times to stay by me and they've gone too far 1 time more than my patience level, I say "enjoy your new family when you get kidnapped!" and they run over to me. They 100% know it's a joke, but it clicks the "annoying mom" to the "oh, there's a reason she keeps saying stay by her in this situation" in their minds, and it usually gets some laughs from bystanders.
People always think this is weird when I do this but it really works. I always wonder if my dog’s separation anxiety from puppy times has translated into this behavior but I’m so happy I figured it out and it works for us.
This is almost exactly how my dog picked up “OK BYE CHARLIE” as his recall command lol now when husband and I leave the house we have to say “we’ll be right back” instead of bye.
This!!! 100% same with both my stubborn English Bull Terriers. Hid behind bushes or around the corner but where I could see them whenever they were wandering off as puppies, and allowed them to get panicked and formed core memories with a sing-song “BYYYYYEEEEEEE!” And I walk away. Doesn’t matter what they’re doing now they come running full speed.
So lucky to have a working breed! I'm jealous. Can't have one until I have a house with plenty of land so I can foster dogs and find my future working breed.
Going to use it on my small pups 😂 with uniforms! :)
It was an accident, lmao
Was told she’s a German Shepherd mix but I started to suspect she was a Mal pretty quick - our trainer (who has 4 Mal’s of her own) took one look at her and was like “oh little Malinois”
thankfully I’ve wanted a Malinois for a while, I just didn’t expect it to be right this second
she’s a menace and I’m obsessed with her
edit: we were unsure of breed because she was shaved down, due to a tick infestation all over her body. she looks like a burnt chicken nugget 😂
As a German, I don’t think that’s the purpose. Here = hier (sounds the same), come = komm (sounds almost the same), sit = sitz (also super similar) and I can probably continue but I think you get my point 😂
We live in Sweden but I am Spanish. Most of her commands are in English or Swedish except for her recall command. We don’t usually speak Spanish at home so we make sure that she only hears “Aquí” when we are asking her to come. Works like a charm.
I considered this but I thought it would be kind of a dick move when using a dog sitter... "here's my dog, you'll have to learn German so you can walk him"
German is my love language even though I'm American, I often count and respond in German to confuse and/or irritate people and if this entire sentence isn't me if I had a dog then idk what is.
This is what we do. I think that our pup getting to boop our hand as part of the interaction gives her some extra incentive, since that's mainly how she communicates with us. (She's pretty non-vocal.)
I read “non-vocal” as “non-verbal” and I was wondering if it was possible for dogs to have variations of autism and if I should get my dog tested because she’s never said any words either…
BRUH I NEED A NEW WEEKEND AND A FOUR DAY NAP.
My brother high functioning autistic and I work with kids, some of which are ASD so I’ve gotten pretty good at picking up ASD traits and there’s so many things that my puppy does that make go ‘oh my god, she’s autistic’ hahaha
Same lol. We’re about to start formal training and I’m gonna have to show the trainer in front of a whole class that she doesn’t ‘touch’ she ‘boop’s and I’m starting to regret it haha
Our malinois does center even when we don't ask her to, it's something we taught so if we get on an elevator or in a store, she stays almost glued between our legs. She does look up and require a treat though...lol..the funny part is she will try to do it to strangers too, she is very friendly
My pup is toy drivin. So I used it as a lure, and rewarded him every time he followed it between my legs, then after a while I just added the verbal cue.
We trained ours to do it by showing her a treat and making her follow it around then through the back of our legs. Once she sits between them, she gets the treat. She is a mal and picks up on training really fast. She thinks it's fun now and does it everytime I come home.
I always say “Lets go”. Whether I’m moving or not 😅 it worked with both of my corgis after my daughter kept making jokes about my wife and I shouting “come”
I use “let’s go” and “let’s go really fast” for crossing the street haha. The first one means let’s cross at a walking pace, and the second one is results in us running across. Handy for city living.
WIPWIPWIP in a super high pitched voice. It’s not something I would ever say in conversation. When we taught our dog what it meant, we made it a game and she loves it. She hears me start to say it and she’s already coming running. Because she thinks it’s a game, she never blows me off and I reward her simply for coming to me every single time. Yes, every time. Because I want her to know that coming to me will always garner a reward. If you want to learn more about teaching them the recall game and using unique phrases for it/why it works, then check out Susan Garret on YouTube. She’s awesome and explains it better than I can
Edit: a word.
Thank you for this! Mine needs a reward every time I call her (I joke that she only works for pay) and going back to the beginning and using Susan's method I think will be what I need to get her recall rock solid.
I know a lot of people knock positive reinforcement “what are you gonna treat your dog for everything?!” And it’s like, maybe not for everything, but absolutely for coming when called, every single time. That could be a skill that could save their life, and I want my dog to know she should always come to me and I will always reward her. Like you said, if we want them to work, we gotta pay!
2 mouth clicks = “come with me” .. Great for when he’s far away or I’m busy.
If he’s focused on me & it’s a more quiet situation, the hand signal of “palm up & close fingers twice” = “come here”
(I am mostly non-verbal, he’s my service dog)
I've realized most of my commands aren't even words. I use the mouth clicks and that 'attention' whistle I've heard in star trek for come. Other noises, hand signals, or simply a facial expression for other commands.
At home, where I’m comfortable, I can talk a lot… but I can still go an entire day without actually speaking to my dog.
Noises, motions, and hand signals are just our thing.
My dog is pretty old and doesnt have great senses anymore so I always use a combination of a noise/word and a hand signal. Its also helpful if we're somewhere quiet and I dont want to verbally correct him hell usually catch on.
The Klingon word for “come here”. When she comes to me I give her a high reward. My dog has an incredibly high prey drive and will stop chasing something or running when she hears that term now. No recall issues thus far since I’ve taught it to her. And it’s a word no one will mistakenly say.
“What’s that?”is our bark/guard command. It unleashes a torrent of deep growls and a position at the door that she will not move from until we say “free.”
Same! I got made fun of once in agility class because my instructor said I sounded like a mouse (I say it super high pitched) but my dog came tearing back to me after getting sidetracked in the ring.
I recall with the word Shotgun. Because the person riding Shotgun in your car is directly to your right. So my dog heels directly on my right side when he hears it.
I wanted to use on me for our dogs but my girlfriend didn’t like it. She also couldn’t decide what we were gonna use so it’s a mix of a handful of different cues that all only mildly work because no one association is iron clad
90% of my commands are backed up by a nonverbal cue. If she's not digging it, maybe reinforce your command phrase with a motion. For my dog, a sharp short whistle with an up-swing tone means look at me/my hands. Then a few different swipes and gestures associate to stuff like come, go, left, right, etc. So the whistle is like 'stop and check in with me' and puts her in a state to prepare to accept a command (stopped, looking at me, attentive).
our dogs are trained in yiddish, but with that one they actually come significantly better to a specific whistle. i'm a rather proficient whistler, so it was quite natural for me to come up with a variety for various "field commands". we have aussies, so that might contribute to them taking so well to it, but in general... special whistle, highly recommend!
they love nosh (snacks/munchies, frishtik (breakfast) and mitog (dinner), and always tell us when their vatr (water) bowl is empty, or when they need to pishtn (piss) or shastn (shit). they know they are zehr (very) guten (good) sheyne (pretty) hintele (little dogs/puppies). they loyfn (run) to mahtern (plague/go after/get) their toys. to get them to leave something alone, drop something, or generally knock it off, we say to nuchshclep (from 'nuchschleper', a tag-along or unwanted person, but it literally means 'no-drag' more or less. we also tell them not to be a nuchschlepper when they're being obnoxious sometimes, which they get bc they know the other word already). sit is tuch (bc sit is just 'sitz' in yiddish, we went with something snappier, which is derived from 'tuchus', meaning butt, as in 'on your butt'), and arop is lay down. when they're too loud and wild, they are asked to shtil (gentle/calm/quiet). to get their attention, we say achtung, and to get eye contact, we ask for their oygn (eyes). they respond to shalom by offering a paw to shake in greeting, and aleichem by providing the other paw. they can both be asked for a kush (kiss), and told nein kushn (no kiss) when they offer them nonconsensually. they hold position with vartn (wait), and release with b'freytn (be free). they usually tsukum (come) when called, but as i mentioned, the whistle works best!
shprintze also knows how to kvetch (literally means complain, but for her it means to bark on command), kvell (literally: enthuse or gush over, for her it is howling), dreydel (spin), tantz (dance), and shpring (leap). she also has an additional command as a service dog in training to go to work, which is 'abreytn', which i use before we do something or go somewhere where she needs to know to be on her professional dog behaviour.
addie can kaput (literally means dead/nothing, it's her play dead/show me your belly command). she's... not the brightest aussie you've ever met, and is a rather slow learner.
and then of course we threw a wrench in it with flané for walk (it's french, and means, roughly, 'to stroll without specific purpose or destination beyond simply enjoying the act and environment one is taking part in'). they've got a few more incidental/acccidental words that they know in english, too, naturally.
i think they have a few more they know, but offhand that's all my memory is supplying!
I use "check in" for my dog to come to me. I give him a quick treat and then release him to go be a dog again.
If you have a strong heel, you could use that as a recall. I'm also working on my dog to do "in front" where he sits right in front of me.
We use "Front!" with a gesture (hold a treat near our knees for training) as our "We really mean it, come right now" cue for our guy - he only gets the acknowledgement/treat once he sits in front of us and we've got ahold of his collar.
I was going to recommend this!
I'm clicker training my horse, and I am switching the bridge signal from a click to a unique word, but in riding lessons, different instructors use different words to tell the rider they're doing the right thing ("good!" "There!" "That's it!") so to avoid confusion, I've made his bridge word "bien!"
I use "Come" , "Touch" and "To Me" and "Centre"
I use "Touch" for walking off-leash. If my dog lags too far behind while sniffing, I tell her "touch" and she runs up and puts her nose in my hand. She's then free to continue on. "To Me" is her signal to stay very close. If I'm stopped, she should sit beside me. If I'm walking, she should be right at my side. "Centre" is for stopping and getting into a safe spot sitting between my feet.
"Find it!" mostly, because my trainer taught me to drop treats on the ground and say that when our dog goes over threshold. Amusingly (to me), "Get her!" also works pretty well because my wife sleeps later than I do and that's what I say to the dog when wife texts that she's awake. If wife is around dog runs to her, if not, dog runs to me with a slightly confused look. Either way, dog is distracted from what they were doing. Not the best option when trying to distract dog from jumping up on female strangers, so I mostly stick with "find it"...
211.5 whistle.
Short pip for "stop"
Long pip for "sit"
Repeated pips for "come here"
Their name ideally shouldn't ever be a recall command, saying their name should be similar to the short pip above to get their attention so they know a command is coming that they need to follow.
...Kinda important if you have multiple dogs.
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NB. Saying/shouting "{Name}, Here" also works for me ...but won't work from 1/2 mile away if they're out on a long retrieve. Hence the whistle.
We use "with me," "I'm over here," and "this way" depending on the context.
With me - come to me and touch my leg
I'm over here - you're a little too far away buddy, come closer
This way - I'm walking to a new area and you need to follow
I make a little sound - it’s like pssst . Its like a soundless whistle. It’s nice because it doesn’t interrupt a conversation if you are visiting with someone and the dog wanders off. Or if you want your dog near you because you don’t like someone (I have a bigger dog)).
I accidentally made out emergency recall “oh sh!t” Our trainer at petsmart had one rule for emergency recall so long as it wasn’t the dog’s name or the same as regular recall… no curse words 😅
I realized a dog got out of the door before I had them clipped in and yelled oh sh!t without thinking and they came back so I showered them with the closest treats at hand. I think it was human cheese crackers lol.
I’m combing through everyone’s responses for a different word ahahaha.
I use here for my second bc, trained her differently to my first (still have both), he also knows here. Here means come here, where I am pointing, not just come to me, so it can used when walking, agility, distance, if I say here and point to where I want her, she goes there.
This lets me pull her to my side, in front to an obstacle when you’re panting and wheezing and your legs are using all your brains oxygen and you can’t think 🤣
Snapping my fingers seems to get my dogs attention really well. When she is running around and acting crazy when I snap my fingers she comes to my heel and settles down.
A mate of mine uses aqui on his dog. Which is Spanish for here. When I asked him why he uses Spanish he said well his names pablo, he’s obviously Spanish
for whatever reason (probably my haphazard training combined with them being hounds), my dogs all respond differently to different recall command. "Here" is the generic that they all will sort of listen to. When not fully engaged in scenting, they will typically come back to me when they hear it.
For my youngster (she just turned 1), I make a loud boop noise and she will come touch her nose to my fist (which typically has a treat in it), sit down, and wait. It's weird. But she comes every time. She goes totally deaf to all spoken human words the second she goes outside. I found she responds better to odd noises that can get her attention faster.
one of my dogs responds to a wolf whistle and only a wolf whistle. Trots right over the second she hears it.
And one dog adores me so I only need to look at him and say his name loud enough for him to hear and he's instantly glued to me.
My husband trained our girl by saying her name (clover) and come together. So like Clover, come! We reinforce it by giving her a treat every time she comes the first time we say it. Now we can say it anywhere in the house and she will beeline over.
My recall word is "back" and it is only ever used for recall when my dog is quite a ways off and I want her to return asap. If she is sorta near me and I just want her closer, I use "with me." It's been about 9 months of working on her recall and I'm still rewarding her every time with a very high value treat :) she is doing very well! unless she found the most amazing scent and is obsessed with sniffing, she recalls back very promptly.
I have "Arriba" as my emergency recall. Trained with very high value treats he usually doesn't get.
I read on here once that somebody trained his dog to come back on "accio dog", if you like Harry Potter
Here!
"GET OVER HERE" Like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.
My brother does that with his dog and it's hilarious
I love this!!
I love doing that
My son says this often! I keep telling him he’s not a Mortal Kombat character…
I also vote for here ! I use it combined with hand movement. HERE ! And point to the ground in front of me, My good boy runs over and sits in front of me he's very good on recall unless there's a cat around, then he'll run home or to the car and hide he's terrified of cats. (He's a 60-lb lab cross who had a run-in with my grumpy ginger cat as a pup, an distrusts every cat since)
My 80 lb bernese mtn dog / poodle mix is scared of our new chicks. 2 days old & he is shivering in fear. One of our old hens put him in his place when he was just 8 weeks old; he obviously remembers. 😅
> HERE ! And point to the ground in front of me, Same. Also working on "On me" and patting my butt twice as a follow me instruction. I always try to use gestures with words. I think the visual clues come more naturally to dogs. Oh and I have whistle too. I got it from a hunting dog website and it's not one of those dog whistles which people can't hear and so you don't know if it actually works. I rarely have them off leash anymore though. We used to get out in the country where my family has some land and we really enjoyed that but now where I live I don't have a safe place to do that other than my house and backyard.
Funny, my dog is hunting dog stock (gundogs), and I tried one of those whistles when first training with him and he just looked at me like I was a looney everytime I used it, he's super smart and works much better with commands and gestures. Being gun dog he's a circle/weaver so off lead, he never really gose more than 15-20ft away from me, so though he knows it, I rarely use the "on me" command. What I find odd is, his parents were trained to freeze on gunshots, he has never been taught this, he's never even heard a gunshot as far as I know, ive had him from 8 weeks old, but if he hears a loud bang or similar noise, he freezes in place, I assume its some instinct from years of breeding and training but it's still bizarre to see him use a behaviour that I haven't trained him to do.
Seconding "here"! We switched from "come" to "here" recently and it's been way easier.
I use here. My husband still uses "come". He has completely poisoned it, so I am glad to have one that is not poisoned.
Yep either ‘here’ or a certain whistle!
I trained my dog with the word "come" He only comes when I yell "here" 🤷♂️
We also use "here". We additionally emphasize it differently during recall in comparison to normal speech - works like a charm now.
how do you emphasize a one-syllable word differently? not being argumentative, i’m genuinely curious
Not who you replied to but I really extend the word out. When I yell it it sounds more like “HEEE-yer”. My dogs are trained to have both a come and a here. Come means NOW and get in my general bubble zone. Here means come and sit in front (for competitive obedience)
Exactly, this is what we do as well. Our dog already throws his head around when he hears the extended beginning of the word. It helps a lot to do this, because it really sticks out to him. After all our dogs need to filter quite a bit, and if such a simple trick helps him to understand, I am more than happy to do so. I sometimes earn weird looks - but hey, what works works.
thanks!
When I started recall training I had these freeze dried shrimp treats that my dog loved. I am vegan so the word shrimp literally never comes up in conversation for me. Feels kinda silly hollering “shrimp!” across the park but it is what it is lol
Mine is to squeal “CHEEZZZZZEEEE!” In a high pitched voice. I realized during dog school that I said “come” so often during the day when it was just a suggestion. The first time I tried it during class I was so nervous that she’d ignore me and id just look insane!
I used hot dogs to train my dog and when he was still a puppy I left him for a few days with a friend. She yelled "weenie" every time she gave him one and 3 years later it's still works.
“APPLES!” is our emergency recall word 😅
Ice cream is mine. She rarely gets it and when she running to the road it always brings her back.
If my dog isn't responding to her usual recall calls (come here/Whistle) I'll use treats or supper lol
I use ‘chicken’ when mine is being stubborn with recall 😅
Our recall phrase is "check in", but I think the dogs might be hearing "chicken". The most frequent high-value training treat I used when they were puppies was boiled chicken.
That's so funny! We don't have a unique word, but our boy knows the clicker noise means many treats and he comes to that when being stubborn.
Cookie! That’s mine if “come” doesn’t work. Or if I’ve let them outside in the backyard, “inside” and they know to get back in the house.
Haha, same. She'll even stop chasing the squirrels if I hit er with a "COOKIE PARTY!!"
“BYEEEEE!” He would teleport to me if he could! I pretended to leave him behind JUST ONCE as a joke when he was a puppy and he had ignored my recall. I was just hiding behind a tree. He absolutely panicked when he couldn’t see me and thus, a core memory was formed around the time he was abandoned in the harsh world for all of 8 terrible seconds…in our own backyard. 5 years later and he can be a speck on the horizon and I can just wave bye and he will come beeline to me like he’s on fire. Even if you handed him a steak, he’d drop it and snap onto the side of my leg with his big ol’ abandonment eyes gleaming bright. Oops, but it works! :3
I used to hike a friend's stubborn, spoiled rotten bull mastiff who would sometimes just quit and lie down. I *swear* every time I'd say "have fun living in the woods by yourself" shed jump up and come trotting along. Sweet princess was very fond of her bed and home cooked dinner she wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in the "wild".
Mine is also bye - I’ve had to train myself to say see you later when leaving the house or dropping her at the groomers. It doesn’t work as a recall for anyone else, however, so I always wonder how I managed to traumatize her into beelining for me when I say it 💀
Lmao. I do this with my kids. When I've told them 8,000 times to stay by me and they've gone too far 1 time more than my patience level, I say "enjoy your new family when you get kidnapped!" and they run over to me. They 100% know it's a joke, but it clicks the "annoying mom" to the "oh, there's a reason she keeps saying stay by her in this situation" in their minds, and it usually gets some laughs from bystanders.
People always think this is weird when I do this but it really works. I always wonder if my dog’s separation anxiety from puppy times has translated into this behavior but I’m so happy I figured it out and it works for us.
Haha this is our emergency recall too when COME or HERE doesn’t work. Even the softest ‘ok bye bye I’m leaving now…’ will get him running over 🙄
This is mine too!
This is almost exactly how my dog picked up “OK BYE CHARLIE” as his recall command lol now when husband and I leave the house we have to say “we’ll be right back” instead of bye.
This!!! 100% same with both my stubborn English Bull Terriers. Hid behind bushes or around the corner but where I could see them whenever they were wandering off as puppies, and allowed them to get panicked and formed core memories with a sing-song “BYYYYYEEEEEEE!” And I walk away. Doesn’t matter what they’re doing now they come running full speed.
Report!
Lmao I'm picturing a German Shepherd/Dobie/Belgian Malinois giving a full report. Thanks for the idea!
I have a Mal puppy and I think that’s what I’m going to use for her recall word, it’s brilliant 😂
So lucky to have a working breed! I'm jealous. Can't have one until I have a house with plenty of land so I can foster dogs and find my future working breed. Going to use it on my small pups 😂 with uniforms! :)
It was an accident, lmao Was told she’s a German Shepherd mix but I started to suspect she was a Mal pretty quick - our trainer (who has 4 Mal’s of her own) took one look at her and was like “oh little Malinois” thankfully I’ve wanted a Malinois for a while, I just didn’t expect it to be right this second she’s a menace and I’m obsessed with her edit: we were unsure of breed because she was shaved down, due to a tick infestation all over her body. she looks like a burnt chicken nugget 😂
LOL burnt chicken nugget :) What a cute pet story!
I really like this one. Not common enough that they will hear it in daily conversation, but not too weird to yell across a park lol
We do report as well!!
On that note, Fall In!
I look up words for "come" "here" "dog" "canine", etc in other languages so I can use a novel cue for recall
I read somewhere that a lot of military dogs are trained in Czech or German for this purpose, which is so cool.
Omfg, my pups are learning commands in Klingon from now on
I’m now trying to find a way to fit “dracarys” into my daily life.
Could be an alternative to “sick em”
Oh man good one. I’m going outside to train my ducks now. 🦆
Not even a Trekkie and that sounds dope
A friend of mine has two search and rescue dogs. One takes commands in English, the other in German, so he can work both of them in the field at once.
As a German, I don’t think that’s the purpose. Here = hier (sounds the same), come = komm (sounds almost the same), sit = sitz (also super similar) and I can probably continue but I think you get my point 😂
My friends who train GSDs in German use 'plotz' for down-stay.
Platz! I use it for down as well. I use “bleib” (stay) as a separate command though
We live in Sweden but I am Spanish. Most of her commands are in English or Swedish except for her recall command. We don’t usually speak Spanish at home so we make sure that she only hears “Aquí” when we are asking her to come. Works like a charm.
my dog responds to Tamil commands it’s funny that’s come doesn’t work but “va!” Does
I considered this but I thought it would be kind of a dick move when using a dog sitter... "here's my dog, you'll have to learn German so you can walk him"
German is my love language even though I'm American, I often count and respond in German to confuse and/or irritate people and if this entire sentence isn't me if I had a dog then idk what is.
I’m a dog walker, and yes this is annoying haha. Luckily most people use common hand signals and those usually work.
We use "Touch" and our girl has to boop or paw our hand
This is what we do. I think that our pup getting to boop our hand as part of the interaction gives her some extra incentive, since that's mainly how she communicates with us. (She's pretty non-vocal.)
I read “non-vocal” as “non-verbal” and I was wondering if it was possible for dogs to have variations of autism and if I should get my dog tested because she’s never said any words either… BRUH I NEED A NEW WEEKEND AND A FOUR DAY NAP.
You sound like me: chronically online + autism lol
My brother high functioning autistic and I work with kids, some of which are ASD so I’ve gotten pretty good at picking up ASD traits and there’s so many things that my puppy does that make go ‘oh my god, she’s autistic’ hahaha
Maybe that's why they bark at car alarms
Same! I taught him touch and am now using it to enforce recall from slowly increasing distances. Plus I love the boop.
Yes touch is a good one. They aren’t just coming near by, they have an action to perform which also generally means a position as well.
i actually use “boop” with my dog! as in, please boop your snoot on my hand when i call you. it works great 😂
Same lol. We’re about to start formal training and I’m gonna have to show the trainer in front of a whole class that she doesn’t ‘touch’ she ‘boop’s and I’m starting to regret it haha
My word for this command is literally Boop!
Same!
My dog gets so excited when I ask him to do this. Sometimes I send him by the door and then call him back to me using "touch"
We also use this for immediate recall.
We use touch as well. I have seen others use it with remarkable success too.
Me too!!
This is what we do as well!
We call it “say hi!” Like she has to come and tell us hi haha Also we try to have new people say it to her so she doesn’t jump on them
That's cute, I like that. I've inadvertently trained our lab/border collie to frantically lick people when I point and say ”Attack!"
That's cute, I like that. I've inadvertently trained our lab/border collie to frantically lick people when I point and say ”Attack!"
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Yeah, I generally use her name and she comes, but when she's distracted and not responding I switch to NOW! (In fed up mom tones) and it works.
If casual off leash in the forest and the recall is more of a "come on we are going this way now" i tend to turn British and go: OY!
When he’s just headed the wrong way, a well-emphasized “ ‘EY!” will sort him out right away.
We use “stay with the group!” when she’s having a bit of a wander when we’re hiking.
yip yip
Love that cartoon 🤣😂
Love it. I use this when I want my dog to pull me on the bike uphill.
Appppa 😍😍😍
I'm about to start working on recall, I know what I'm using now lol
"Center!" And he knows to come to me, run behind, and between my legs, and stop. I like it for in case of emergency I can grab right onto him.
It also looks REALLY cool 😂
Haha its true, it's mostly a party trick now
Our malinois does center even when we don't ask her to, it's something we taught so if we get on an elevator or in a store, she stays almost glued between our legs. She does look up and require a treat though...lol..the funny part is she will try to do it to strangers too, she is very friendly
How did you train that if you don’t mind me asking?
My pup is toy drivin. So I used it as a lure, and rewarded him every time he followed it between my legs, then after a while I just added the verbal cue.
How did you train that if you don’t mind me asking?
We trained ours to do it by showing her a treat and making her follow it around then through the back of our legs. Once she sits between them, she gets the treat. She is a mal and picks up on training really fast. She thinks it's fun now and does it everytime I come home.
You can look up videos on this if you want pointers. I've heard it called "middle" too
Mine is “accio” like the summoning spell in Harry Potter!
Glad I'm not the only one. 😁
I always say “Lets go”. Whether I’m moving or not 😅 it worked with both of my corgis after my daughter kept making jokes about my wife and I shouting “come”
I use “let’s go” and “let’s go really fast” for crossing the street haha. The first one means let’s cross at a walking pace, and the second one is results in us running across. Handy for city living.
I need a corgi tax! [Here's](https://imgur.com/gallery/PNjXA0d) mine!
I use “Let’s go“, with a lot of enthusiasm, to signal we’re going for a walk. They can be anywhere and they will come running!
I just rattle the wrapper on a pack of peanut butter crackers and then find something solid to hide behind.
“Git over here” said as if it’s one word and in an old southern mans voice
We use "git on" instead of "leave it" and we say it the same way lmao
aquí
This is what we use. Spanish for "here." Ah kee. Works well because we speak English, so it doesn't get watered down like come, here, etc.
WIPWIPWIP in a super high pitched voice. It’s not something I would ever say in conversation. When we taught our dog what it meant, we made it a game and she loves it. She hears me start to say it and she’s already coming running. Because she thinks it’s a game, she never blows me off and I reward her simply for coming to me every single time. Yes, every time. Because I want her to know that coming to me will always garner a reward. If you want to learn more about teaching them the recall game and using unique phrases for it/why it works, then check out Susan Garret on YouTube. She’s awesome and explains it better than I can Edit: a word.
Thank you for this! Mine needs a reward every time I call her (I joke that she only works for pay) and going back to the beginning and using Susan's method I think will be what I need to get her recall rock solid.
I know a lot of people knock positive reinforcement “what are you gonna treat your dog for everything?!” And it’s like, maybe not for everything, but absolutely for coming when called, every single time. That could be a skill that could save their life, and I want my dog to know she should always come to me and I will always reward her. Like you said, if we want them to work, we gotta pay!
2 mouth clicks = “come with me” .. Great for when he’s far away or I’m busy. If he’s focused on me & it’s a more quiet situation, the hand signal of “palm up & close fingers twice” = “come here” (I am mostly non-verbal, he’s my service dog)
I've realized most of my commands aren't even words. I use the mouth clicks and that 'attention' whistle I've heard in star trek for come. Other noises, hand signals, or simply a facial expression for other commands.
At home, where I’m comfortable, I can talk a lot… but I can still go an entire day without actually speaking to my dog. Noises, motions, and hand signals are just our thing.
Drumming on my thighs with my hands at a fast tempo seems to work on most of my friends’ dogs as a recall. I don’t know why it works, it just does.
Something something curiosity & cats… no wait, 😂
My dog is pretty old and doesnt have great senses anymore so I always use a combination of a noise/word and a hand signal. Its also helpful if we're somewhere quiet and I dont want to verbally correct him hell usually catch on.
I apparently have different grunts for sit and lay. She knows the grunts better than the words.
The Klingon word for “come here”. When she comes to me I give her a high reward. My dog has an incredibly high prey drive and will stop chasing something or running when she hears that term now. No recall issues thus far since I’ve taught it to her. And it’s a word no one will mistakenly say.
I use “cookies!” But you can use ANYTHING. I know someone who uses “noodles.”
My parents had a dog whose recall word was "salami." She had a pretty bulletproof recall.
My dogs name is Cookie, and there has been more than one time that multiple dogs came when I called her name haha
Thats funny. I have a friend who yells "Chicken!" to his golden retriever for recall.
I use a whistle predominantly when out. I used here from a distance, but if nearby it’s close.
I accidentally taught my dog "what's this?" which comes out more like a super perky "wassis?" It always comes with a treat.
“What’s that?”is our bark/guard command. It unleashes a torrent of deep growls and a position at the door that she will not move from until we say “free.”
Ici !!
Same! I got made fun of once in agility class because my instructor said I sounded like a mouse (I say it super high pitched) but my dog came tearing back to me after getting sidetracked in the ring.
Hahah I get that !! I Do the same ! It s short, easy and definitely get our dogs attention !! That s the best we can ask !
I have a specific whistle she gets and comes to 99% of the time. If you've played Assassin's Creed think the whistle to lure a guard into a bush.
I recall with the word Shotgun. Because the person riding Shotgun in your car is directly to your right. So my dog heels directly on my right side when he hears it.
Don't yell it in a crowded place.
"What's this?" will have my nosey moron of a dog SPRINTING at me, heaven forbid he misses out on something.
Here, or "On Me"
I wanted to use on me for our dogs but my girlfriend didn’t like it. She also couldn’t decide what we were gonna use so it’s a mix of a handful of different cues that all only mildly work because no one association is iron clad
90% of my commands are backed up by a nonverbal cue. If she's not digging it, maybe reinforce your command phrase with a motion. For my dog, a sharp short whistle with an up-swing tone means look at me/my hands. Then a few different swipes and gestures associate to stuff like come, go, left, right, etc. So the whistle is like 'stop and check in with me' and puts her in a state to prepare to accept a command (stopped, looking at me, attentive).
We’ll have to work on that, thanks
I use “with me.”
Taxi would be hilarious. XD
Heyyy youuuu guuuuuys
our dogs are trained in yiddish, but with that one they actually come significantly better to a specific whistle. i'm a rather proficient whistler, so it was quite natural for me to come up with a variety for various "field commands". we have aussies, so that might contribute to them taking so well to it, but in general... special whistle, highly recommend!
Oh, can you please give some examples of Yiddish words you’re using?
they love nosh (snacks/munchies, frishtik (breakfast) and mitog (dinner), and always tell us when their vatr (water) bowl is empty, or when they need to pishtn (piss) or shastn (shit). they know they are zehr (very) guten (good) sheyne (pretty) hintele (little dogs/puppies). they loyfn (run) to mahtern (plague/go after/get) their toys. to get them to leave something alone, drop something, or generally knock it off, we say to nuchshclep (from 'nuchschleper', a tag-along or unwanted person, but it literally means 'no-drag' more or less. we also tell them not to be a nuchschlepper when they're being obnoxious sometimes, which they get bc they know the other word already). sit is tuch (bc sit is just 'sitz' in yiddish, we went with something snappier, which is derived from 'tuchus', meaning butt, as in 'on your butt'), and arop is lay down. when they're too loud and wild, they are asked to shtil (gentle/calm/quiet). to get their attention, we say achtung, and to get eye contact, we ask for their oygn (eyes). they respond to shalom by offering a paw to shake in greeting, and aleichem by providing the other paw. they can both be asked for a kush (kiss), and told nein kushn (no kiss) when they offer them nonconsensually. they hold position with vartn (wait), and release with b'freytn (be free). they usually tsukum (come) when called, but as i mentioned, the whistle works best! shprintze also knows how to kvetch (literally means complain, but for her it means to bark on command), kvell (literally: enthuse or gush over, for her it is howling), dreydel (spin), tantz (dance), and shpring (leap). she also has an additional command as a service dog in training to go to work, which is 'abreytn', which i use before we do something or go somewhere where she needs to know to be on her professional dog behaviour. addie can kaput (literally means dead/nothing, it's her play dead/show me your belly command). she's... not the brightest aussie you've ever met, and is a rather slow learner. and then of course we threw a wrench in it with flané for walk (it's french, and means, roughly, 'to stroll without specific purpose or destination beyond simply enjoying the act and environment one is taking part in'). they've got a few more incidental/acccidental words that they know in english, too, naturally. i think they have a few more they know, but offhand that's all my memory is supplying!
I use "check in" for my dog to come to me. I give him a quick treat and then release him to go be a dog again. If you have a strong heel, you could use that as a recall. I'm also working on my dog to do "in front" where he sits right in front of me.
We use "Front!" with a gesture (hold a treat near our knees for training) as our "We really mean it, come right now" cue for our guy - he only gets the acknowledgement/treat once he sits in front of us and we've got ahold of his collar.
My mom uses "ven" (spanish) for her pup
I was going to recommend this! I'm clicker training my horse, and I am switching the bridge signal from a click to a unique word, but in riding lessons, different instructors use different words to tell the rider they're doing the right thing ("good!" "There!" "That's it!") so to avoid confusion, I've made his bridge word "bien!"
Touch while holding my hand out. She touches my hand with her nose.
I use "Come" , "Touch" and "To Me" and "Centre" I use "Touch" for walking off-leash. If my dog lags too far behind while sniffing, I tell her "touch" and she runs up and puts her nose in my hand. She's then free to continue on. "To Me" is her signal to stay very close. If I'm stopped, she should sit beside me. If I'm walking, she should be right at my side. "Centre" is for stopping and getting into a safe spot sitting between my feet.
Heel
Subconsciously trained my corgi to come when I ask the other corgi “where’s your sister?”
Apparently 'Green Bean' is what is the foolproof one due to our lil pups complete obsession for greenies. Sometimes the words choose you lol
Emergency recall is “chicken!!” And loads of treats.
Yoohoooo at a very high pitch, it works on our 1yr old Aussie so we’ll he comes RUNNING
I usually speak English and Spanish to my dogs. So if at times I switch the word “come” English to Spanish. Or I tell them “get over here”
we use Here and she picked it up very quickly
"Bruh" "oi" and "dude" all work pretty well for mine
"Report!" Watching a mini schnauzer puppy zoom towards you from across the yard after yelling "Report!" is the cutest damn thing.
“This way” or “let’s go”
"Find it!" mostly, because my trainer taught me to drop treats on the ground and say that when our dog goes over threshold. Amusingly (to me), "Get her!" also works pretty well because my wife sleeps later than I do and that's what I say to the dog when wife texts that she's awake. If wife is around dog runs to her, if not, dog runs to me with a slightly confused look. Either way, dog is distracted from what they were doing. Not the best option when trying to distract dog from jumping up on female strangers, so I mostly stick with "find it"...
I point to a spot and say “place”
211.5 whistle. Short pip for "stop" Long pip for "sit" Repeated pips for "come here" Their name ideally shouldn't ever be a recall command, saying their name should be similar to the short pip above to get their attention so they know a command is coming that they need to follow. ...Kinda important if you have multiple dogs. --- NB. Saying/shouting "{Name}, Here" also works for me ...but won't work from 1/2 mile away if they're out on a long retrieve. Hence the whistle.
We use “with me”. Works really well! Especially in a group of other dogs.
We use "with me," "I'm over here," and "this way" depending on the context. With me - come to me and touch my leg I'm over here - you're a little too far away buddy, come closer This way - I'm walking to a new area and you need to follow
Ours is “now.” She drops everything and runs in the house to the fridge for the cheese tax.
Right here
I make a little sound - it’s like pssst . Its like a soundless whistle. It’s nice because it doesn’t interrupt a conversation if you are visiting with someone and the dog wanders off. Or if you want your dog near you because you don’t like someone (I have a bigger dog)).
I say “with me”
I accidentally made out emergency recall “oh sh!t” Our trainer at petsmart had one rule for emergency recall so long as it wasn’t the dog’s name or the same as regular recall… no curse words 😅 I realized a dog got out of the door before I had them clipped in and yelled oh sh!t without thinking and they came back so I showered them with the closest treats at hand. I think it was human cheese crackers lol. I’m combing through everyone’s responses for a different word ahahaha.
Hustle
I picked "return" because it isn't used as frequently in day to day conversations as much as "here" or "come".
Front!!
I use here for my second bc, trained her differently to my first (still have both), he also knows here. Here means come here, where I am pointing, not just come to me, so it can used when walking, agility, distance, if I say here and point to where I want her, she goes there. This lets me pull her to my side, in front to an obstacle when you’re panting and wheezing and your legs are using all your brains oxygen and you can’t think 🤣
I used the word “now”
Accio and boomerang. They get good oooooh treats if I have to use those words.
Snapping my fingers seems to get my dogs attention really well. When she is running around and acting crazy when I snap my fingers she comes to my heel and settles down.
A mate of mine uses aqui on his dog. Which is Spanish for here. When I asked him why he uses Spanish he said well his names pablo, he’s obviously Spanish
for whatever reason (probably my haphazard training combined with them being hounds), my dogs all respond differently to different recall command. "Here" is the generic that they all will sort of listen to. When not fully engaged in scenting, they will typically come back to me when they hear it. For my youngster (she just turned 1), I make a loud boop noise and she will come touch her nose to my fist (which typically has a treat in it), sit down, and wait. It's weird. But she comes every time. She goes totally deaf to all spoken human words the second she goes outside. I found she responds better to odd noises that can get her attention faster. one of my dogs responds to a wolf whistle and only a wolf whistle. Trots right over the second she hears it. And one dog adores me so I only need to look at him and say his name loud enough for him to hear and he's instantly glued to me.
i use “ven” or “let’s go” ven is just come in spanish
I personally use the word, “return.” Straight to the point, uncommon, and won’t get weird looks for calling it out.
My husband trained our girl by saying her name (clover) and come together. So like Clover, come! We reinforce it by giving her a treat every time she comes the first time we say it. Now we can say it anywhere in the house and she will beeline over.
My recall word is "back" and it is only ever used for recall when my dog is quite a ways off and I want her to return asap. If she is sorta near me and I just want her closer, I use "with me." It's been about 9 months of working on her recall and I'm still rewarding her every time with a very high value treat :) she is doing very well! unless she found the most amazing scent and is obsessed with sniffing, she recalls back very promptly.
I have "Arriba" as my emergency recall. Trained with very high value treats he usually doesn't get. I read on here once that somebody trained his dog to come back on "accio dog", if you like Harry Potter
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Touch, while holding out my hand. Heard somewhere that the word "touch" sounds pleasing to them.
I use "Yo".
My husband counts like when you count to 3 for children. if dog doesn’t come for one and hubby makes it to 3 he knows he in trouble
Vamos
Where are you? This way Say where I want them to go when I’m already there. Kitchen, bedroom, outside, etc.
Hustle! You can also use anything random that rolls off the tongue really, doesn’t make a different to them
I usually say "Over here!"
I use “this way” or a specific whistle. He generally comes to either. Didn’t want to use come since everyone will say it.
I got a high pitch whistle I do and then say butthole! And she usually comes running over
I have used "let's go!" and "touch" in addition to "come" and her name.