Puppy Training – Teach To Sit and Come While They Learn to Play Fetch
Puppy training is important whether for good behavior or fun. While your puppy is learning the fetch game, it is important that tasty treats be used as well as praise and there is a reason for this. The importance of praise hasn’t been firmly written on the chalkboard of your pup’s mind, so until it is, give your pup what is known to be a positive reward stimulus and that is food. You may be thinking, shouldn’t training always take place in the pup’s head and not their stomach and while this is true, they are learning a game.
Dog and puppy training can be made fun for both you and your pup. Attempt to do at least three of the fetching games for a period of ten minutes each day, for three days in sequence. These fetching drills should be in addition to a five or ten minute walk on the leash, daily. We’re going to sneak in two commands while the puppy is having these “game times” and before it even realizes what’s happened, it will have been trained to respond to “come” and “sit”.
While in the middle of the retrieving games and the puppy has given you the play toy, put your left hand on the rear of the dog and your right hand under its chin. Press lightly with your left hand while exerting a small amount of upward pressure with your right as you command, “sit”.
Good Puppy Behavior
As soon as you have placed the puppy in that sitting position, pour on the enthusiastic praise, then toss the play toy out again. After the puppy brings back the toy, refrain from praise until the ‘sit’ command has been given and it is placed in the sitting position. In the case where the puppy breaks from your grasp and you do not successfully get him seated, refrain from throwing the play toy, withhold praise and please do not give up entirely. This will make for a well trained dog and start good puppy behavior.
Utilize the leash to bring the puppy to you, say ‘sit’ and put the puppy in the proper sitting position, ending each round of the fetch-sit game with a special treat.
Around the time you wrap up the third session of the fetch-sit game, you may see that there is not much need for left hand pressure to encourage the puppy to sit. You will have a walk on the leash for 10 minutes on the schedule for the days numbered four through seven. All things will be as they’ve been on preceding days and take four small tidbits with you. Make sure they are tucked away in your pocket, out of sight and scent, as you take the puppy outdoors.
After you begin with what the puppy believes to be a routine daily walk, take a tidbit out of your pocket, kneel down to its level and say its name, followed by the command “come”. Using the leash, carefully pull the puppy towards you. Give it the tidbit, and at the same time pour on the praise. By giving the tidbit with the praise, your puppy will begin to learn that praise is synonymous with the reward. These dog training and puppy training tips can be utilized in many areas of your training.
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