When you're out walking your dog, and he's running along, and then he just veers in your direction, but he doesn't come all the way in, that's another way of just checking in. Sometimes they'll do that just so that they can catch you in their peripheral, so that you get onto their radar, and if you just acknowledge that with a “good dog”, just for turning in towards you, they don't have to come all the way in. But again, for me, when I'm working off leash, if they come in, then they get a reward. Otherwise they just get the good dog. They still get the acknowledgement. They just get the real high value stuff if they come all the way in.

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