Dog Health Questions: Hand signal for stay and high five are the same - dog training?

i'm training my 7 month old puppy. shes doing really well except gets confused when i tell her to stay or give me a high five because the hand signal looks the same.
how do i change this to make them look different? i don't want to confuse her any more.

p.s.- i dont want to put my hand up close to her face when i tell her to stay because that wouldn't be realistic if i'm out somewhere or need to tell her to stay in a hurry, without running up to her to put my hand in her face. i want to be able to tell her to stay from across the room. and she's picked up well with the stop sign hand signal, its just that i use that also when i ask her for a high five.

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This is understandable and even I stumbled upon this conflict while training my dog.

The "stay" command is fine. Putting your hand up and shouting stay is great.

Now for "high-five" - I have a solution. I called my "high-five" - "Paw". I put my hand lower than the dog's head with my palm facing up wards and said "paw". Training the dog into responding to paw is just as effective. Paw and high five are basically the same thing. Once the dog has adapted to "paw" with your hand below the head and palm upwards - when you say paw in the future, your dog would be able to touch your hand no matter what position it is in.

There shouldn't be problems with paw and stay being a like at this time because not only are the words different and the hand jester different but, you have to be closer for a paw or as you like to call it "high-five".

I hope I helped, good luck!

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• Ok hi-5, keep you hand up high, keep it normal
  
  For stay, I lower my arm and palm so it is diagonal or you could even flatten it out completely.


• Heh, for my dog we use a different hand symbol. We put the hand sideways so we don't confuse him.


• for 'stay' my boyfriend and I point and say stay. It worked well with her.


• out the high five lower and turn your hand like a handshake.
  
  thats what i do with my dog(:
  
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• Just change one of the commands. Start by using the new hand sign in conjunction with the verbal command. She'll realize on her own that this sign means to do that command. For the command that stays the same, only reward her if she does the action you want. It's pretty easy to recondition puppies to new commands provided you're upbeat about the training and offer incentive (treat, praise, play, etc...). For future commands, try to make sure the hand sign isn't too similar before you start training it. There's no set hand sign for any command. There are commonly used ones but you don't have to use those. My dogs all respond to hand signs and none are the traditional ones. I chose my own because that was easier for me. As long as they are being trained, it really doesn't matter what the sign/command is. All that matters is that your dog understands what you want and does it.