The Secret to Teaching Your Dog COME and STAY
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today I’m going to show you exactly the
steps you need to take to teach your dog
come and stay and I’m also gonna go over
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is so appropriate Teddy hey I love you
bear negative things that I’ve had
trouble with was um
coming one call okay um stay okay and
just and puppy biting he is a puppy
puppy biting is a huge issue I’ll have a
link in the description for those of you
who are dealing with that I’ve made a
lot of videos on puppy biting because I
know we can really try your patience and
it lasts for many weeks sometimes even
months today I’m hoping to concentrate
on come and stay I mean this is these
are potentially life-saving skills the
huge advantage you have with teddys that
he’s 11 weeks old you are in such a
golden position to make sure that
unwanted habits don’t emerge in the
first place
so you can really set them on the
perfect trajectory to be a really
well-behaved dog aside from teaching
come and stay today I want to go over a
greater point that I think a lot of you
will benefit from as well that is
breaking things down into smaller steps
now I’ve got to tell you this is very
non-intuitive for people who are new to
teaching dogs I’m gonna make it very
easy for you to understand and if you
guys embrace this logic you’re going to
really accelerate your progress in
training
why is stays so important the importance
of teaching stay is usually greatly
underestimated especially for those who
are new to teaching dogs remember that
if you have a young dog under the age of
five months they tend to be pretty
obedient largely speaking compared to
what they’re gonna be like once they hit
five to six months of age so you don’t
want to be caught off guard when
teaching our dogs stay it’s important
that we teach not only in training
sessions like we’re about to do but in
real-life scenarios as well when the
opportunities present themselves the
thing that I see most people do when
they’re beginners when they teach stay
is something like this they’ll go stay
and they’ll walk away like that and then
their dog gets up just like that and
then they’ll come over here and they’ll
reposition their dog they’ll say sit
stay and the walk away and their dog
gets up like that and that pattern
continues until a couple of things
happen to you that the dog eventually
gets it or the person gets frustrated
and then they give up on training and
settle for mediocrity you don’t need to
do that step one that’s teaching your
dog to stay for a period of time now
this my hires a little bit of discipline
on your part to look for small moments
to reward your dog Teddy here we go
ready stay yes did you see that that was
like a half second staff that’s what we
start with
honestly it’s that simple stay
nice obvious hand signal there to really
communicate with them you also notice
that well on the ground here dogs are a
lot more responsive to listen to us well
we’re close to them versus farther away
stay whoa almost I actually pushed him
to failure that time I asked for too
much time apparently two seconds he
wasn’t quite ready for that state yes
good and I’m saying yes that’s what we
dog trainers call a marker word to
really let them know exactly what we
like the moment yes they do that stay
one two three or five yes oh you’re so
good very good now we may as well teach
him a release word as well let’s get
into that stay one two three four five
yes okay good
nice work so by saying okay you let him
know okay the stay is over now nothing
to it right right it’s doing great with
this step two is teaching your dog to
stay while you walk away the biggest
marker of distance is the distance
between your eyes so the more your eyes
move away the less likely your dog is to
listen to you in the beginning because
generally speaking dogs like to be close
to us so check this out stay yes good I
just lean back a little bit right there
that’s all I did
that is a variation of distance stay
nope your dog doesn’t do it right one
time make sure they succeed the next
time by taking a step back on your
training and setting them up for success
stay yes good I didn’t even stand all
the way up because I wanted to make sure
that he succeeded there and he did stay
while my eyes got farther away I love
that yes good boy very good you’re doing
terrific okay get up that was two or
three successes in a row okay I’m
thrilled with that if I got that for the
whole training session I would be happy
with that and so eventually work up to
two three four or five steps away take
your time with this you know step three
is teaching your dog to stay while
they’re mildly distracted we don’t want
to wait until we’re confronted with a
real-life distraction to then introduce
this concept a lot of people are guilty
of this when they’re taking their dog on
a walk or there enough distracting
exciting situation and they expect what
my dog should stay
worked on it in the backyard so we have
to prepare them for that I’m gonna
squeak this toy okay if he holds that
stay for a half a second you go ahead
and reward him make sure you let him
know I love that you stayed in the most
sincere way that you can that make sense
stay yes reward right there so you want
to look for those tiny bits of time when
you’re introducing a new concept to your
dog to really you know reward them nope
sit they go ahead and reward him Derek
because he broke stay on the last one so
we want to make sure on the very next
attempt he succeeds to the best of our
ability yeah stick and then okay release
and let him know it’s okay to get up
start here don’t throw your dog in the
deep end when it comes to stay now let’s
go over how to teach your dog to come to
you when you call them teaching your dog
to come to you is vitally important I
spend months training reinforcing and
practicing come when called in a massive
variety of environments before I let my
own dogs off leash in an uncontrolled
environment make sure that when you do
introduce this concept of coming to you
when you call your dog that you do it in
an environment that they are familiar
with first the best thing you can do to
set your dog up for success is calm it
in a happy enthusiastic voice make your
dog when it comes running to you in this
kind of environment he’s familiar with
it it should be a relatively easy
process at first but we’re gonna
gradually increase the level of
difficulty so I’ve got this long lead we
have him on a harness so this way he has
room to roam but we still have control
of him so he can’t ignore us
indefinitely why don’t you take a few
steps down over here Teddy come Teddy
come he’s not very interested in me you
see that so I’m gonna try and get a
little more exciting now hey Teddy Teddy
Jake come on come on almost yes good
right there and giving your dog an extra
big reward
a couple extra pieces of chicken can go
a long way to making them want to repeat
that behavior all right so he’s got his
attention on me right now so that’s a
mild distraction this would be quite
good if he would come to you if he so
much as takes a step towards you give
him a yes and
to encourage him be animated too
that’s it that’s good and I love your
sincere energy here – that’s wonderful
it’s not good dog give him a treat you
got a really authentically let your dog
know you love when they listen to you
make them want to repeat the behavior
over and over again he’s got this down
now we’re gonna increase the distance
remember dogs are less likely to listen
to you when you’re farther away Hey look
at that
look at him run yes you can’t have that
guys living in Seoul that’s fantastic
I’m thrilled with this let’s move on to
the next step now which is off leash
come when called but still in a fenced
area still in a contained environment
this may not look like a significant
step but dogs are smart they know when
they have a lead on versus when they
don’t I want to see if he comes to me
hey Teddy come nice work so if your dog
isn’t coming to you but you’re still in
a contained environment like this here’s
a tip for you shorten the distance
between you and your dog hey Teddy come
here let’s go let’s go and look at that
dogs like to chase you when you run from
your dog they’re likely to chase you all
day long come on Teddy look at that good
job here we go let’s go look at him go
being exciting is really important when
it comes to teaching your dog now he’s
doing a little bit of play fighting
right here cuz I got him excited we’re
putting that on the back burner we’re
not gonna focus on correcting that right
now because the fact that he came to me
far outweighs the fact that he’s jumping
and play biting with me right now if you
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