Start by deciding what signal you’re going to use to ask your dog to pause at the doorway. We use “Wait” in our training classes, but I use “Mind” myself (short for “Mind your manners”) because “Wait” sounds too much like one of my herding signals. Just pick a word that doesn’t sound like the other signals that you use and be consistent with it. Remember to use a quiet but low voice and to say the word as if it were a statement rather than a question. (“Wait?” said like a question translates to something like: “Would you consider waiting? Are you going to listen this time, huh? Maybe?
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