More on the 21 Day Challenge To Walk Your Dog Every Day in San Diego

As we left Taos, NM & headed for San Diego, CA the Walk Your Dog Every Day Challenge continues. Here are some last minute snow pictures with tips for walking your dog in the cold to add and then we’ll be on to some beach pictures and more dog training tips.

You can start our 21 Day Walk Your Dog Every Day Challenge anytime, no worries… start from today and then you can go back to blog post done recently and keep on track. The best thing to do though is… just do it! It will be good for your dog and it will be good for you.

The tip for today is how to get your dog to sit and wait. Most people call that “stay”, but when we are out walking and in motion, sometimes things like “wait” come out. In either case a very helpful thing to train your dog to do when walking on a regular basis is to sit & wait. So, how do you get your dog to be trained like that… it takes one thing… practice. And then some more practice.

The very first mistake most make when trying to get the dog to stay is to start practicing when there is a lot of distraction around without first teaching how to wait or stay without any distraction. (As you can see in the video… there is isn’t a lot of distraction going on… a good way to start. Though make sure to start with a bit of a shorter distance.)

The next mistake made in training your dog to sit and stay is adding WAY too much distance too fast. I know that sounds very simple, at the same time being the over achievers that most of us are we tend to go this route too early on. We expect our dogs to know “stay from 10 feet away the same as they did that one time we got them to do it from only 2 feet away. It’s an quite clearly a different picture to the dog and once we break it down to that it’s easy to train your dog at both distances..in sequence.

The big dog training tip of the day is practicing getting your dog to sit and stay from just 2 feet away with very little distraction. Practice that until your dog starts really showing “getting it” signs, then on to longer distances or more distraction.

Our free dog training webcast is on Wednesday night again this week, 5 pm Pacific time. Watch us every Wed night at www.DogTrainerGuru.com brought to you buy UStream.tv. It’s for anyone and we’d really like to help all of our people who are on the Dog Walking Every Day Challenge too so bring your questions. We’ll answer them!

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K9 Coach does private lessons in San Diego & Temecula, CA & Taos NM. We also have what has been called the best Dog Training Camp ever by many of our clients as well as online dog training programs for those who want to practice from the comfort of your home.