How to Train Difficult Dogs : Teach a Welsh Corgi to Sit Using Dog Obedience & Training
Hi! I’m Melanie McElroy with Taurus Training
for Expert Village and today we are going
to talk about training dogs. So let’s talk
about teaching Corgi’s to sit. Corgi’s are
wonderful animals but there are some things
about Corgi’s that make them a little bit
different than other dogs. Well as you can
see they got these little squatty bodies and
these cute little short legs. Well a Welsh
Pembroke Corgi teaching them to sit can also
be a little bit difficult because they are
herding dogs and a lot of times herding dogs
are bred to work independently of people.
It’s not necessarily true for Corgi’s but
herding dogs also really focus in on what
they want to chase. So it’s very easy for
them to become distracted because anything
that moves out in the environment they instantly
attend to. So first of all be sure your Corgi
is paying attention to you. So good, that’s
very nice behavior so I am going to reward
it. So there are a couple of different ways
to teach a Corgi to sit. One thing you can
do is wait until they offer the behavior,
mark it and then reward randomly. The other
thing you can do is actually use food as a
lure to teach the dog what behavior you want.
Giddy, good! Now I marked that because he
looked at me. Now this Corgi is getting pretty
distracted by the cars around him. I am going
to try to get him up and moving. Okay. Let’s
go. Yippee! Sit, good. Now I have to wait
until he finishes his treat there. Oh, here
comes a dog. Sit, good! Notice how I moved
into him a little bit. I’m using his own space
to show him what I want him to do. Now I didn’t
reward him then because remember we want our
reinforcement to be random. So here comes
a dog in the distance so this is a great opportunity
to use the food as a lure to get his attention.
Okay, okay. As I said, Corgi’s love to hone
in what’s going by. Okay, okay, okay! Good
boy. Sit. Good! So there I used the food a
little bit as a lure at the end to give him
a little help, speed him up a little bit.
That’s teaching a Corgi to sit. We will go
on to the down command next.
