Patriot is helping me demonstrate how to ask for more eye contact from your dog. This is a great skill to have that can translate into so many other areas of your training. You want your dog to focus on you, so start them young if you can and teach them that giving you their attention will earn them a reward!
This is a great exercise to work on with your puppy to encourage them to focus on you and give you some eye contact. We start this in low distraction environments, make sure the dog really understands what we’re asking, and then we’ll practice this in other environments like outside, with other dogs around, with higher-value rewards, etc.