The "Watch-Me" command is taught to your dog to get him/her to look at you without using their names. One of my biggest complaints of puppy or older dog owners is that the dog ignores them when they call his/her name. We have a tendency to speak our dogs name hundreds of times a day and they become desnsitized to it. So lets learn the "Watch-Me" command.
Take a treat and let your dog have a sniff, do not say his/her name, put it up to your eye (because that is where we want him to look) and when he/she is looking at you say "Watch-Me", wait for 2 seconds then reward and repeat several times a day for a few days. Then extend the time little by little he has to look at you, starting from 2 seconds, then 4,6,8,etc.
After about 3 weeks of this exercise, whenever Mackinaw was looking away, all I had to do is say, Watch-Me and he would turn and look.
Then I would call him back to me once i have gotten his attention.
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