Okay - most dogs can get the sit pretty fast. If you have not gotten this one mastered - try this trick. With the dog in front of you. Hold a really good treat out (I like hot dog pieces or lunch meat pieces), and let the dog smell the hand. Hold you hand above its nose and say "Sit". While doing this, take the hand with your treat, and push your hand above the dogs head. (This is so that if the dog is staring at your hand, it will have to sit and raise its head to see the hand.) If the dog sits, immediately give lots of praise and the treat. After doing this a few times, most dogs will pick up on this command. Just remember to always always end your training on a good note - and never do it to long. You want it to be remembered by the dog as fun. Not really work.
Also - a quick tip. Do you have a dog that just loves to hunt for things? Make it work for those treats. A favorite of mine, is to get those tiny training treats at petsmart, and then hide them all over a room when Lib is not there. She will spend a good amount of time using her nose to sniff them out. If you don't want treats all over a room in your house, throw them in the grass. This will keep those pups entertained for a little while.
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Hmmm...I will have to try this out with my dog.
ReplyDeleteAny ideas on how to make you dog bark when she needs to go to the bathroom? We have tried everything from the hanging of the bell on the doorknob, modeling by barking to go out (and yes, we did look stupid doing this one!)Right now, she will just stare at us or the door when she need to go out. This is great if we are there to see her but if we miss her.....
ReplyDeleteFirst - does your dog speack on command? If so, every time you let her out, ask her to speak before you open the door. If she doesn't speak, when she barks at something, tell her "good speak" and reaward her a lot! (You don't have to use the command speak, ust what every you want.) If she is smart, she will pick up the speak command pretty quickly. Especially if you reward her with an extra speacial treat. When I do recall (the come command) I use steak bites or chicken. Those are Lib 2 favorite things. That way she knows she will get something really speacial that she really really wants and she is always willing to work for it :-)
ReplyDeleteI have tried this before and it works, but not on my new little pomeranian (actually 9 months old). I guess I'll keep trying. I am also looking to figure out a way to get him to bark to go out to do his biz.
ReplyDeleteI know this sounds silly, but sometimes if you can hang out with another dog that can bark on command, that will help. My older shepherd (who is not longer with us) would not bark on command. Until Lib came along and learned it in about 3 days. Once Casey saw Lib getting treats for barking on command, it was like a light blub switch on in her head. She caught on so quick, that I was kicking myself for not thinking about it before.
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