Junior alva Webboard User Reg: 10-20-2012
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Hello my pup is now 4 months. I have been working with him on treat and marker training. He understands and does automatically the sit. But I can't get him to stand or down on command. I have been reviewing the Michael Ellis video over and over. What am I doing wrong? I work with him 1 to 2 times a day, should I be adding more work. By work I mean play and fun time.
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Hello my pup is now 4 months. I have been working with him on treat and marker training. He understands and does automatically the sit. But I can't get him to stand or down on command. I have been reviewing the Michael Ellis video over and over. What am I doing wrong? I work with him 1 to 2 times a day, should I be adding more work. By work I mean play and fun time.
How did you teach sit? Did you start with luring him into a sit?
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Hello my pup is now 4 months. I have been working with him on treat and marker training. He understands and does automatically the sit. But I can't get him to stand or down on command. I have been reviewing the Michael Ellis video over and over. What am I doing wrong? I work with him 1 to 2 times a day, should I be adding more work. By work I mean play and fun time.
How did you teach sit? Did you start with luring him into a sit?
What are the down problems?
Yes I started by charging marker, luring.
I don't think it's a problem. But I can tell him to sit and he does with out luring. But he won't down or stand on command without luring. I can get him to do all of them by luring. But not on que.
Stand is hard. But you can lure down.
Do the sit first. Then while he is sitting, put something TERRIFIC in your hand. Make a fist around this terrific thing, and put your hand down in between his paws. Say "down", but don't open your hand and let him have it until his elbows are on the ground.
He'll get it pretty quick if the treat is good enough.
Stand is hard. But you can lure down.
Do the sit first. Then while he is sitting, put something TERRIFIC in your hand. Make a fist around this terrific thing, and put your hand down in between his paws. Say "down", but don't open your hand and let him have it until his elbows are on the ground.
He'll get it pretty quick if the treat is good enough.
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you shouldn't be worrying about putting things on " cue " at this point .
many , many , many reps luring , basically muscle memory imprinted before you put a name to it and expect the dog to comply .
sit is easy because it is a natural posture for the dog to look up at the one giving the food .
there are a whole bunch of other behaviours you can play him with .
remember , it ain't about the behaviours for obedience sake , all that is just a vehicle to foster engagement . that is what you should be focusing on .
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That's the thing he knows the sti, down from stand,stand from sit and stand from down. While I lure him. The way the video showed Michael explained. But will not do it without luring him into the positions. So right now I say the que then lure him into the position when he does it I say yes then treat.
So what am I doing wrong? Or am I trying to speed things up. I was looking at Rush in the video with Cindy at 4months he was doing the positions on command.
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