Vets have revealed a surprisingly simple method that is guaranteed to make your dog do want you want every time.
However, they found that combining these two gestures is the best way to get your pet to follow your directions.
'We know that dogs with varying levels of exposure to humans perform worse than pet dogs in studies of pointing comprehension,' they added.
However, they found that combining these two gestures is the best way to get your pet to follow your directions] Their analysis revealed that staring at an obejct or pointing at it are 'useful' tactics.
'In the current study, we set out to investigate whether dogs follow humans' referential communication more than their other directional cues,' the researchers wrote in their study, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.