Dog Commands for the Direct Seller

Laurie … HEEL!

As a self employed direct seller, there are many times when I am working on a task, headed toward a particular objective, but then I get so sidetracked that what should take me 20-30 minutes to complete can take me more than an hour.

This reminds me of my nightly walks with my puppy.  For the first half of the jaunt she wants to stop and sniff everything; she wants to turn around and go the other way; she wants to check out the pinecone in the street; she wants to cross the street; she wants to do everything except stay focused and walk in the direction we are going.

According to SeeFido.com, teaching and training your dog to “Heel” is essential for all dog trainers as it is part of teaching your dog to be disciplined. To teach the dog this, the dog must be on a leash next to the dog trainers left leg. The trainer will then start to walk with the dog at the command of “Heel” and the dog must walk right next to the dog trainers left leg without running ahead, or stopping at any moment. The way to teach the dog to stay next to the dog trainer is to pull at the leash with short quick pulls.

I wonder if there is a way to set up my computer to detect when I’m stopping at a mailbox to sniff, then I will get a short quick pull on my leash, accompanied by the command:  Laurie … HEEL!  Maybe that would keep me on track!

Think how productive I could be! Hmm – wonder what other tricks I could learn.