Dog Language – The Top 4 Ways to Communicate With Your Dog

Now that you know the 4 ways dogs communicate, you can use your knowledge of dog language to your advantage when training your dog.

You can use one or all of the 4 ways dogs communicate when training your dog. For best results though, it´s best to incorporate a combination. Let me give you a couple of examples.

Down/Stay Position

Let´s say you want your dog to sit and stay (lie down in one spot and not get up for a specified time period no matter what´s going on). It´s important that your body language does not communicate submissiveness.

So here´s how it would look:

Let´s say you put him down and he stays down for a few minutes but gets up. He may be getting up because your body language is telling him it´s okay to get up. Like if after you put him down and start walking backwards away from him, your body language is encouraging him to get up.

However, if at the split second your dog decides to get up, you lean forward (a sign of dominance) and in a firm, low pitch voice say "DOWN" or "NO", your dog will read your body language as pushing him away or back down. Leaning forward is a sign of dominance for dogs, whereas leaning away signifies submissiveness. Your tone of voice (low pitch) suggests you mean business.

Let´s take another example:

Using Vocal Tonation & Inflection

Remember we said in dog language, a high pitched bark communicates something pleasant and a low pitched bark communicates displeasure? Okay. When your dog does something good (let´s say he eliminates at the proper time and place), you want your voice to be high pitched when you say, "Good Boy!"

You also want to touch your dog by rubbing his head or his back while telling him he´s a good boy. Remember, dogs associate rubbing with pleasure. By communicating with your dog in a language he can understand, dog language, you´ll be able to train him in as little time as possible as well as develop a very close, warm and loving relationship with your dog. Learn dog language and start building a loving relationship with your dog.