Your dog should listen without the use of hand signals. This is not to say that hand signals are bad, but typically if your dog is doing something wrong, they’re not looking at you. You need to have verbal control over your dog. Your goal should be to get rid of The hand signal as fast as possible. Dogs, like most men, cannot do two things at once, so if you are moving your hand while simultaneously saying the command, they didn’t hear anything because they were too busy, focusing on the movemen