Here are easy steps to teach your dog to lay down on cue beginning with a food lure. I like to teach sit and lay down separately as dogs can get those two behaviors confused. They will tend to do which ever behavior you most recently have reinforced. If you have a clicker, you can use clicker training to teach this. [Read more…] about Teaching Your Dog To Lay Down
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The Sit Challenge
In dog training, when it comes to teaching your dog behaviors, remember it is the reinforcement history that a behavior has that builds value and strength of that behavior. With that in mind this dog sit challenge practices a lot of repetitions of your dog sitting in a quick amount of time. How many times in a minute can you ask your dog to sit? See if you can do at least 8 times. Here are two videos of playing this with dogs, one using a clicker and the other using a verbal marker. [Read more…] about The Sit Challenge