After Slurpie was consistent with his Sit and Down commands we started on the stay command in his 2nd week with us. Stay command is very very useful when you need to clear his pee/poo, pick up food that has dropped etc basically when u need poochie to stay away to allow you some time to clear up or mop the floor.
I am so proud of my PP he learns so quickly although he was only about 3 mths old. This is what we did:
1. Give down command first but no reward
2. with one hand placed gently on his back, we put the treat about 1m away (stretch as far as I could with my hand still on his back)
3. when he attempted to get up to get to the treat, I placed light pressure on his back while my other hand made the "stop" sign (fingers all opened like signaling 5) in his face and say Stay.
4. Released after about 1-2 seconds as I say OK and let him run to the treat and relish it.
5. Repeat
Tip: gradually we did not have to hold him in place, so we adjusted the pressure on his back as he progressed.
We increased the waiting time to 30sec, 45sec and 1 min gradually. We also started to walk away with the treat in our hands while he stayed, increasing the distance as we increased the time. He will come running the moment he hears OK at reallt high speed haha.
Now we can do the stay while we walk into other rooms/out of sight! Try it! Stay is really good cos only with Stay can you take nice pics like this:
after our home trainings we did attend some formal classes and found the methods they used were different. I guess there are many ways to train poochie so as long as it works I think any method is fine =) The above method was from a book we bought. Will do books review soon.
I am so proud of my PP he learns so quickly although he was only about 3 mths old. This is what we did:
1. Give down command first but no reward
2. with one hand placed gently on his back, we put the treat about 1m away (stretch as far as I could with my hand still on his back)
3. when he attempted to get up to get to the treat, I placed light pressure on his back while my other hand made the "stop" sign (fingers all opened like signaling 5) in his face and say Stay.
4. Released after about 1-2 seconds as I say OK and let him run to the treat and relish it.
5. Repeat
Tip: gradually we did not have to hold him in place, so we adjusted the pressure on his back as he progressed.
We increased the waiting time to 30sec, 45sec and 1 min gradually. We also started to walk away with the treat in our hands while he stayed, increasing the distance as we increased the time. He will come running the moment he hears OK at reallt high speed haha.
Now we can do the stay while we walk into other rooms/out of sight! Try it! Stay is really good cos only with Stay can you take nice pics like this:
after our home trainings we did attend some formal classes and found the methods they used were different. I guess there are many ways to train poochie so as long as it works I think any method is fine =) The above method was from a book we bought. Will do books review soon.
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