Teaching Your Dog to Drop Something with the Yuck Command

Uploaded on June 12, 2025 • 11 min

In this video, Ed Frawley shares why and how we teach the Yuck/Leave it command to your dog. Yuck is a command we train to teach our dog to spit out something it has picked up. It is probably the second most valuable command to teach our dog. This is taught in combination with the "Leave it" command. Leave It is a command taught to ask the dog to leave something alone that we don't want them to pick up.

This video clip came from our Basic Dog Obedience course. This self-study course has 8 hours of video plus very detailed written training content. This course will cover the basic philosophy of reward-based training for sit, down, the foundation of coming when called, yuck/leave it, and walking on a loose lead. Additionally, you'll receive advice on managing your dog in your home. This course is taught by Ed Frawley owns Leerburg and has been training people how to train dogs for over 55 years.

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Links

Basic Dog Obedience

Intermediate Dog Obedience

The Power of Training Dogs with Markers

Training Dogs with Food Rewards

Obedience Training Equipment

Supplies Used in the Video

  • Dog Handler Training Apparel
  • Treat Pouches
  • Training Treats
  • Lightweight Leash
  • Flat or Prong Collar
  • Competing Motivators (Food, Toys, Etc)
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    When people have specific training questions we recommend that they go to our website and post those questions in the ASK CINDY on the front page of leerburg.com. Cindy has been training dogs since she was a teenager and has competed in several dog sports at a regional and national level. She was also a vet tech and owned a boarding/training and grooming business for many years as well as breeding working Dobermans and Belgian Malinois under the kennel name Kaiserhaus.

    Questions posted to ASK CINDY are answered almost every day. They are also recorded in our systems if a dog owner has additional questions Cindy will review the previous Q&As and this helps her give better feedback and assistance.

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