The key to training your dog is by teaching the last step of whatever it is you want your dog to do first! I know that sounds a little backwards, but dogs do learn in pictures. They don’t logic.
So where to start?
Lets use the example of having your dog come to you and sit in front of you. Most people would automatically try to call the dog to them and then ask the dog to sit. Right?
Wrong.
Why? Because I want to be able to reward the dog most times for the end result. So, if I teach my dog to sit in front of me and reward many times for that, then have my dog somewhere away from me and ask them to come and sit, the chances are they will get it. They know the last step well!
If you try to teach you dog to come and then sit, the chances your dog will come to are iffy at best! And then you have the task of teaching the sit in front of you.
On the other hand, if you have had your dog sit in front of you and you’ve reward over and over for that, when your dog is away from you (and start with a short distance) you can then say “come”, and chain it together with “sit”. Your dog has been rewarded many times for that and so the chances they are going to come and do the sit in front of you which is well known are much higher!
Cool huh!
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