Teach Your Puppy to Lie Down

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Summary: Teach your new puppy to lie down on command in this free video.

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Contact: taurusdogtraining.com

Melanie McLeroy She attends conferences regularly, particularly those sponsored by APDT, Tufts and others. She is a trainer in the Head Start program at Town Lake Animal Cent... read more

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by irais01

I have a small poodle. I had been trying to teach her down with no success. After watching this video it was really easy and she is doing really good. We are now working on the stay command. :o) and I know she will do great as well. Thank you for all this training videos they are very very helpful.

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Teach Your Puppy to Lie Down

Hi! I’m Melanie McLeroy with Taurus Training for Expert Village and today we’re going to talk about puppies. Now it’s time to teach this little corgi puppy how to lie down. Barto has sit, sit down, so what I’m going to do is use the cheese as a lure and take his nose to the ground, now I think this will take a little bit more time than a sit command because it’s something new. Now see how I’m moving it forward. I run the risk of his rear end going up in the air, so I’m going to start over, sit, good and take the cheese down more between his paws. Down, good. Now see how long that took, be patient, you don’t want to say the word until you’re reasonably certain about 98% that he’s actually going to do the action. Sit uh… now there I did little no reward marker and he jumped on me. So instead of moving away which a lot of people do when dogs jumped, I moved into him to control his movements and get him off me. Come here little… let’s try that again. Sit, good, uh… sit, good. Now that little uh… little uh that I’m doing is a no reward marker when his rear comes up off the ground that means he did the wrong thing. Sit, good. Again, I think his rear is going down, good, very nice, okay, sit, good, down, good. So you see, how I was moving his body backward and then encouraged him to come forward to get his front part of his body on the ground. Okay, so this will take some time. Barto definitely needs several sessions on this command every day for quite sometime and then we start fading the lure, making sure our reinforcement is random, we might try some different reinforcement from time to time, so that’s how to teach a puppy to lie down.