Dog Health Questions: Dog training - Vocal commands and hand signals?

For example, if you were training your dog to give his left paw and his right paw, what commands would you use and why?

Also, do you use hand signals as well? Or just vocal commands?

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I always use BOTH. But.. they usually respond to non-verbal commands better.
Even human do.. researcher tell us the 98% of communication between humans is non-verbal.

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• My dog learned faster for hand signals, so I started with hand signals and added commands later, I also did some clicker training, works amazing!!
  I use hand out and say paw for shake, hand slid back for crawl, hand up for sit and hand down for lay down, etc.
  My Mom uses completely different commands for her dogs tho, whatever works for you.


• I will usually teach Hand Signals and Voice Commands, and either use both, or one or the other when my dog has been trained to respond to the command.
  Because 'shake' isnt an Obedience command that you are going to get tested on- there is no right or wrong way to teach it.
  Some people prefer to have the dog shake hands like a human- i.e. Right paw to right hand.
  
  I generally just let the dog choose, but encourage the dog to reflect my hands (i.e. right hand, left paw because she is facing me)
  I dont have my dog trained to shake hands on voice command, because I like to add different words, so they work only on the hand signal.
  I love asking my dog 'do we have a deal?' and presenting my hand for her to shake.
  
  When you have the dog trained to touch each hand- rather than just the standart handshake, you can start to play 'patty cakes' with them, or train them to 'give 10' where they put both hands up.
  I like this with dogs that are prone to jumping up on people because it encourages their natural behaviour provided that it is under your control.


• IDK, the words/signal I give just kinda happens, I don't think about the cue too much.
  
  Hand signals first,then I add vocal. My sheltie responds to both.