Dealing with Different Scenarios when Training a Dog to Stay: Part 1

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Hi! This is Elise McMahon for Expert Village and today we are talking about how to teach your dog a reliable stay. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at canineheadstart.com. So we were going to be talking now about generalizing the stay with working in short distances, short durations and we have been working in one room. At home you want to work in a room with very little distractions to begin with, but once the dog is getting an idea we feel pretty confident that they are getting an idea of what we want, that we want them to hold that position when we ask them to stay, then you are going to start generalizing it. Dogs are extremely good at learning things but what they do is they take everything that’s going on around them and they incorporate that into what they are learning. So they can learn to stay very well and for very long in one particular room if you always work in that room, but it doesn’t mean they are going to understand that stay means stay if you are outside. So you want to start generalizing the concept and giving them different situations, changing the environment doing different things yourself to let them know that stay means stay regardless of what is going on. One of the things you can do is you can take your dog outside and start working on a stay and again each time you change something in the environment you are going to decrease distance, decrease duration till they get it and then start increasing gradually as we talked before working gradual with your dog. So I am going to show you an example that usually fouls up most dogs because most dogs are used to us working with them when we are standing. One way to change what’s going on is if I take a seat while the dog is in a stay.

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