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one I love to train that helps a ton with training other things is to follow my fingers, I don't have a name for it, its a signal (thumb touching index and middle finger with my other 2 fingers tucked into my palm) they think you have a treat and they follow it, you have to actually learn it with treats but if you use clicker training which I do it really helps with shaping other skills like "front" and "swing"

I like to have my dogs know a basic heel, not where they are watching my face the entire time but right next to me, and if a dog is reactive a formal heel is wonderful because if you see a dog coming and you can get them into a formal heel you can get by the other dog (as long as its not like right next to you, say across the street) without the pulling whining and such, I use it with Goren and he is very leash reactive to leashed dogs