Bil-Jac Training Tips – Training Your Dog to Sit
I’m Joel Silverman Hollywood animal trainer and TV show host I’m gonna show you how to train your dog to sit start to finish okay so what you want to do is you want to start off with your dog in the standing position taking a treat holding the treat just like this and saying the word sit guiding your dog backwards just like that till he sits and say stay just like that then release the dog one more time so just get your dog just say sit take the treat got it back stay great go over and over again what’s gonna start happening is he’s gonna start sit sitting a little bit easier right just a little bit easier one more time sit when he gets the point where you think it’s everything is going pretty good and then what you want to do is remember we were holding the treat just here no treat at all okay watch this we just say sit stay and we rewarding just like that okay one more time boy ready oh look like the whole treatment sit stay and reward just like that when your dog is good with that then you could start moving back a little bit okay again your hand is here watch this sit now you’re about what two inches away reward him good boy very very nice that’s a good boy and one more time here you go sit and that is how you train the sit again this is going to take you somewhere between maybe three days to a week and just important to remember it’s little parts of the behavior set little goals for yourself and make sure that you always end each session on a positive note this dog training tip has been brought to you by the good folks at build