My puppy of 6.5 months is starting to sit kind of sideways not a good tight sit. Is my dog just being lazy? I correct him and make him do the whole thing again until he get it right. I am not sure why he is doing this any idea's?

Dale

All it takes is rewarding one crooked sit, and the dog starts doing it all the time.

Sucks, doesn't it?

Retraining with a new command can help, or you can continue correcting and withholding reward for crooked sits. Depends on your dog's personality.

When I was doing ob with my youngest dog, we had trouble with straight sits. We cleaned it up heeling next to a wall. Mine was about the same age when we were having issues, and we cleaned it up in a few short sessions.

i did what sue did, then when we graduated to working w/out the wall, only rewarded for a perfect basic position. i would start with a couple of sits next to a wall, then go to an open space. if a sit was crooked, no reward, release, do again, if it was still crooked,, back to the wall where the straight sit would, of course, get a reward. didn't take long at all.

Thanks for the help

So how do you fix backing into a sit?

All good ideas above on the sit straight. I used the chute for years and weaned off of it after the dog seemed to get it and now with marker training they get it lots quicker.
"Backing into a sit"
I'd work that separate. put the dog in a corner where it can't back up or swing it's butt when you give the command. Anothe way is to have a set of stairs right behind the dog. It's not going to back down the stairs when it sits. Careful not to crowd the dog if it's sensitive to body pressure.
Don't work more then one problem at a time. All that's going to do is cause conflict in the dog.
Break everything down. Once they understand the individual behavior, chain them together.
The recall is separate then mark and rewarded for being correct. The sit is separate then mark and rewarded for being correct.
Put them together when both are solid and ALWAYS RANDOMLY reward both together AND by themselves.
Example;
The dog understands both so you chain them together. Every 3-4-5- whatever amount of times reward just the recall.
If you start rewarding only when chained together the first behaviour, the recall in this instance, will weaken.
The dog has to know that ANY behavior can be rewarded at any time.

Bob, did you realize this was '09?

Of course I knew that.... ......really......I wouldn't fib about that.......honest

I was trying to respond to a "Sit Crooked" post and when I followed posts that Connie connected to I replied to one of them instead.
It's not cause I'm old and get lost easily. It's Connie's fault!

 Quote: bob scott

Of course I knew that.... ......really......I wouldn't fib about that.......honest

I was trying to respond to a "Sit Crooked" post and when I followed posts that Connie connected to I replied to one of them instead.
It's not cause I'm old and get lost easily. It's Connie's fault!

Yeah. It's cause I'm old and get lost easily!