I rarely use it. How bout you why or why not?
In my case it's because pet dog people say NO NO NO with nothing else for the dog to do next...Probably used it a couple more times including a couple times when the pup tried to steel a bird off the bird rack as we were leaving the line.
Don't really understand the fixation on saying or not saying the word no. It's just another word.
Lardy will use "no" when a dog has made a mistake.Seems to me I recall Mike Lardy being an advocate of not using No. Something along the lines of telling a dog what TO do, keeping as positive forward flow of learning.
Myself, I'm not a fan of adding extra steps. No reason to stop when one can move forward.
It's like Sit, followed by Stay. Stay is redundant, and is mostly us telling ourselves we don't think sit will stick past a few seconds which speaks to inconsistency on our part. Sit means plant your butt and don't move until you hear another command.
Dog is jumping up: I don't say No, off, down, no jump, etc. I say Sit.
Dog isn't looking out where I want, I move, re-heel the dog and line up again.
Dog gets into garbage, I say Sit.
Dog veers off toward bird drying rack...I say heel! which is the infraction that occurred.
No says I'm upset/angry and startles the dog....Sit is a command to do something and also distracts the dog from whatever misbehavior is happening.
But that's just me.
If your dog (or your son/daughter) was taught to communicate in a foreign language - NO might not mean a thing to them or it could mean something completely different.On the one hand, folks will say you can use whatever words you want for anything you communicate to the dog, as long as you're consistent... I guess that's as long as the word isn't no.