Solid Sit
Lure:
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Grab a handful of food rewards.
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Place a treat between your thumb and index finger.
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Place the treat near your dog's nose.
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Slowly move your hand up and over your dog's head.
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Mark the instant their bum touches the floor.
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Feed 3-4 treats one after another while your dog is in the sitting position before releasing them by throw a treat out to the side.
Sit cue:
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With no treats in your hand say "sit"
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Move your empty hand up
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Mark the instant their bum touches the floor.
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Grap a handful of treats and feed your dog in position, one food treat after another.
Settle
Chill out on a mat:​
Everyone wants to take their dog to their favourite coffee shop or pub and why wouldn't you? In this short video I go through the beginning stages of teaching your dog to lay down on a mat. The cue for settling is the mat going down.
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Place your dog's mat or bed on the floor.
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Lure your dog onto the mat.
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Ask for a sit, then with a treat in your hand move your hand from your dog's nose slowly down onto the mat.
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Start placing the treats in-between your dog's paws once your dog goes into a down position.
Recall
Recall step 1:
The key component to teaching a reliable recall is to train a visual and verbal recall cue. I like to teach a hand touch as my visual and the word "come" as my verbal. Using a whistle as your verbal will work just as well.
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Stand in front of your dog
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Place your hand flat out close to your dog's nose.
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Mark the instant your dog touches her nose to your hand.
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Once your dog is touching your hand reliably you then add a cue. I like to say "come"
Loose Lead
Four rules to a relaxing walk:
Before we start training our dog how to walk on a loose lead there are 4 rules to bear in mind.
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Consistency
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Length of the lead
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Treat bag
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Positioning
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Lead:
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Treat bags:
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Harness:
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Loose lead walking - stage one:
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Place a treat onto your dogs nose and then lure your dog into your heel position. ( Make sure your dog is facing the same direction as you and is in line with your leg.)
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Feed your dog for staying in position. If your dog moves out of position just lure them back into position.
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Give your dog 6 food rewards then throw the 7th food reward out to the side so that your dog has to move out of potion to get the food.
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Lure your dog back into position and repeat steps 1-3.
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If you feed your dog a dry food mix then use their breakfast/dinner to do this training, If you feed a raw diet and are happy to handle the raw meat then you can use your dogs breakfast/dinner or use tiny high value food rewards like chicken, ham, cheese etc