Sit, Stay, Come

The best tips to keep in mind while teaching your dog simple commands are 

1. Keeping eye level 
2. Stern Voice 
3. Repetition
4. Treats 

“Sit Means Sit”

Once you are prepared, begin demanding “Sit” use eye contacts and a stern voice if your dog is having trouble, tap/ guide their butt to the floor to sit. If you have to guide their butt over and over again, it’s okay. Stay repetitive and continue to reward with treats.

“Stay..Good Boy”

After nailing sit, next comes the command stay, continue with eye contact and after your pup is sitting slowly walk away, face your dog and continue walking away. If your dog breaks the sitting position go back and re-command sit and stay, and try again. Move backward more and more and reward with treats. Soon with practice your goal should be able to leave a room or quite a bit of distance with stay. Using the stay command is useful when you and your pup leave the house as well, off leash training will come in later with other commands that will help.

“Come!”

Stay and come work hand in hand together once you have “stay”, come is basically the reward for staying. Unless you are in public and your dog spots a squirrel and has no control but to chase after it. If your dog gets loose from you, teaching your dog the importance of “come” will be a huge change. Reward after “come” while training unless you happen to keep treats on you while your in public with your dog is good too. The main focus is to have your dog listen to you with or without treats.

The main reason for treats is so your dog understands that when you command something and he or she does that command, he or she will get rewarded, and make the teaching process easy. But at the end of the day you want your pup to listen either way. After they have learned and are capable of the commands with treats continue teaching the commands without treats and reward with affection. 

Practice everyday and repeat the skills

Introduction To Me

My name is Kaelynn Villalobos and I am a senior in high school this year, I have had two dogs in my lifetime and I am currently a proud owner of a red standard poodle. Even though I haven’t owned many dogs personally I have had my fair share of being around dogs and training them. When my dog was just a puppy about 6 years ago after my first pup had passed away, my family had begun searching for a new fluffy friend. They had come across a poodle breeder in Pueblo Colorado (after my first dog we fell in love with the breed), we drove about two hours from my home in Colorado to get him. After bringing him home not long after we begin training at our local pet smart, weekly we brought him for his class in which me and my parents took part in. He quickly picked up simple commands and we continued practicing at home, after basics were nailed I was able to pick up on the training concept and I taught my now best friend Snickers how to “shake”. It wasn’t until a few months ago from right now I taught him to “high five”. Although they were fun party tricks for my family I wanted to practice more tricks. Along the years with the simple commands we can play hide and seek together in the house, recently I’ve been working on teaching him to roll over which has so far been the toughest considering he’s not very comfortable with rolling on his back (unless it’s for a belly rub). We will continue working on that and I will give updates on how we’ll accomplish “roll over.” With that experience a couple months ago I was employed with a dog training company where I have learned so much more on dog training and just simple dog care in general.