3 MISTAKES Dog Trainers Make and How to AVOID Them: #1 Stay to Recall – Dog Training Videos
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there’s some really common problems
people making dog training and there I’m
going to break those into three
categories the first one is going to be
the tea people teach their dog to sit
and stay then they walk away from their
dog and they call their dog to come or
they even just release their dog the
problem with that is that the dog starts
to form a habit that when you’re away
from them whether it’s a second ten
seconds or three minutes you’re going to
eventually call the dog to you so the
dog preemptively will get out of his sit
and get out of his stay and will come to
you when the dog makes that mistake it’s
your fault not the dog’s fault that’s
critical to understand we don’t want to
make that was the mistake with our dogs
so we want to teach them to stay and
then clearly release them away okay so
I’m going to show you an example with
goofy the wrong way to do it first and
you’ll start to see a little pattern of
mistakes with him so if I say goofy sit
and I go away from him and I say yes
good boy he comes to me right that’s
normal I’m releasing him some pet dog
trainers make a critical mistake with
the dog where they’ll say here that’s a
goofy sit and the dog will sit and
they’ll walk over here and they’ll say
goofy come and goofy comes he’s now
formed a habit that when I walk away
from him he’s waiting for me to give the
secondary command in other words this
one command isn’t enough for him he’s
trying to form a behavior or form a
pattern in his mind that he’s going to
go to the next behavior and he’s gonna
preemptively be a really good dog and be
really obedient to you and do the next
behavior even before you ask for it
even though you don’t really want it and
I’ve seen this over and over with a lot
of pet dogs they always break their stay
now when you’re doing a dog that’s going
to be doing competitive obedience or
protection sports or anything like that
or even your own house dog you want to
form a clear picture with the dog that
means if I say to the dog goofy sit and
I walk away I want to be able to stay
here talk to you I want to be able to
walk away from the dog walk up to the
dog and do anything here with the dog
and he never thinks he’s going to get
out of that sit no matter what happens
he is
sitting because I asked him to sit and
there’s never ever ever any second
secondary obedience so he wouldn’t do it
again so sit I walk away and he’s gonna
learn he stays there when I tell my dog
to sit I should be able to under any
distraction
goofy sit I should be able to distract
him and he’s not going to go for that
distraction because he knows that that’s
a sip I take the distraction back I left
him on a set when I go to release the
dog this is the critical difference
between good training and poor improper
training is when I go back to him I’m
gonna say goofy yes I touch him I do a
tactile release then I give him a treat
so he knows he must wait for a tactile
release any kind of a static obedience
I’m gonna do with the dog such as a sit
her down it’s going to have an implied
stay so any static exercise that
teaching more immobile exercise I teach
him to down to sit to stand or whatever
it is that means he needs to hold that
obedience until he hears the next thing
if I’m away from him I’m not gonna
recall him to me I’m gonna do all my
recalls in pray mode I’m talking talking
about that in another video
but here he has to understand if I see
goofy sit and I walk away his job is to
stay there until I call him if I tell
him to stay there goofy sit and I drop a
bunch of treats in front of me it should
mean nothing to him he’s not going to
come to me he’s going to stay right
where he is I’ve got a trail of treats
coming to me if I start to go back to
him he still knows his job is to stay
there I will give him a tactile release
I will touch him yes that’s his release
word that’s when he gets released if you
go through this clearly with your dog
your dog will never make the mistake of
leaving I’m going to give you a great
example of why this is so critical this
is imperative because if I tell my dog
sit over here and I cross the street
over here to do something else and
there’s cars coming and he’s been
recalled off of thats it time after time
after time his natural habit is to cross
that
Street get hit by a car and come to you
he must must must understand that if I
say sit this sit means stay you can say
stay if you want to it doesn’t matter
but here sit means sit I go away from
him and no matter what here nope I put
him back sit good good good good sit I’m
gonna come back I’m gonna reward him
good sit sit
I’m gonna go away from him again and I’m
gonna try to distract him a little bit
now as he gets more advanced that he
should see that nothing I’m doing here
is gonna mean come I come back and say
oh that’s a good boy
I do intermittent phrasing and
intermittent rewards with a little bit
of affection good boy stay and I can
walk away or sit whatever your command
is commands are completely irrelevant
the words so until finally I go to when
I say goofy good boy yes and that’s
where he’s going to get his reward and
that’s part one of the three biggest
mistake people make in dog training
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