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Summary: Teach your poodle how to lie down in this free dog obedience training video, with basic tips and techniques for teaching good pet behavior.

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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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Teaching a Poodle to Lay Down on Command

Hi! I’m Melanie McLeroy with Taurus Training for Expert Village, and today we’re going to talk about training dogs. So Aida the standard poodle is ready to learn how to lie down. She has been very distracted by squirrels and leaping about in a lively manner, so this might be a bit challenging. Now that head shake means that she’s getting a little nervous, so what I’d like to do is start by getting her attention, and then see if she’ll respond to some body language like she did when we were teaching the standard poodle how to sit, good. Now I got a voluntary check in there that was beautiful, Aida, good, sit, good, so I’m going to just try a hand signal and see how far we get down, ump, sit. Okay so that “ump” was a no reward marker. When her rear went in the air, I was indicating to her that’s not what I wanted, so we’re going to try this again with food as a lure to help her out a little. So the food is here, I take it straight down to the ground down, good, very nice, okay. Now I’m going to say “okay” when she starts to leap up, because that’s my release word. You can use anything for a release word, okay, free, it doesn’t matter as long as you are consistent. Aida, good, sit, needs a hand signal for help, ump, I’m going to wait until she calms down a little bit, good and then taking down, good, okay. …okay, sit, good, ump. Now Aida is testing me a little bit here: that’s all right. I have patience. Sit, good, down, good, no food, ump… down, good. Now I did a no reward marker there when she got up, because I want to teach her that when I say down, that means to stay. Sit, down. We’ll talk more about stay in the next video. Ump… down, Aida really needs some food reinforcement for the stay, so we’re going to go on to that video, see what she’s doing up and down and up and down. At Taurus this is what we call a popcorn dog. This is a challenge, but we’ll teach her how to stay in the next video.

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