Learning to use silence as part of a training session

Send us a textYou enter ring at a venue, the routine starts, you look over at your dog and a sinking feeling starts. As you start to go through the exercises, your dog looks as if he has NO idea of what you cue.You become frustrated, think you need to train harder, think your dog needs more practice and you begin to list off any number of possible reasons. All of them likely are quite valid or not.Have you ever taught your dog to get used to you being silent? Using silence as part of a teachi...