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we're going to go over one of the most ,
commonly used commands which is how to ,
teach your dog to sit the first step is ,
to use a tree to lure your dog into ,
position and your end goal will be to ,
have your dog wean off the hand signal ,
and respond to your voice command alone ,
first step in teaching thus it is to ,
lure the dog into position using the ,
tree so we're gonna hold the tree to the ,
dog's nose and guide him up into the sit ,
by holding the tree up and over his head ,
good boy good boy ,
make sure their bud is firmly on the ,
ground before you praise and get the ,
treat then notice also the first two ,
times that I did the exercise with Spike ,
I didn't say the word I just want to see ,
if they would be predictable with the ,
hands motion once they're sort of ,
predictable without when you good boy ,
you raise the treat over their head that ,
they're gonna put their blood on the ,
ground you can start to pair it with the ,
word so you want to make sure you're ,
using your command ,
just before doing the hand motion so ,
spike sit good boy spike sit good boy ,
the next step once they're responding to ,
the hand signal of having the loin them ,
into position with the treats of their ,
nose we're going to use less and less of ,
a hand signal meaning that we're gonna ,
take the same motion which is up and ,
over their head and make it a smaller ,
and smaller version you want have to be ,
careful of making sure that it's not too ,
different of a hand gesture and then you ,
get some confusion with the dog and you ,
have to go back to the step of getting ,
success just like sit good boy spike sit ,
good boy ,
spike sit good boy ,
sit good boy so you want to keep working ,
on feeding off the hand signal until ,
you're using no hand signal at all you ,
want to make sure that you're also not ,
using any other body language so no ,
leaning forward no chin movements or ,
anything your body should just remain ,
neutral while you're asking the command ,
that way you're sure that it's ,
independent of any body language and ,
they're really relying on your voice ,
command that's it good boy good spike ,
sit good boy spike sit good boy ,
spike sit good boy ,
timing is really important so you want ,
to make sure that you're rewarding the ,
behavior as soon as it occurs so as soon ,
as sissified hits the ground you're ,
gonna hear me mark it with good boy and ,
then the treat really quickly afterwards ,
a common problem that happens is people ,
wait to mark the command and as they're ,
giving the food the puppy gets up and ,
they start to learn sit and stand up ,
becomes the sit command and then it ,
becomes difficult to get them into the ,
stay ,
so once you successfully weaned your dog ,
off of the hand signal you want to start ,
working on a variable reinforcement ,
schedule where we're not rewarding the ,
dog every time ,
ideally in real life you're not always ,
going to have food with you when your ,
dog sets to reward them so you want them ,
sort of working for the promise of the ,
food and in order to maintain the ,
behavior as something desirable to the ,
dog we go to from a continuous schedule ,
where you're rewarding the behavior ,
every single time that they perform it ,
to a variable schedule where they may ,
get it after two repetitions of ,
performing the behavior or after five ,
this keeps the dog thinking that maybe ,
this time they're going to get the ,
reward it doesn't always have to be ,
there in order for the behavior to occur ,
spikes it good boy I'll start out giving ,
in one spike stick good boy ,
space it good boy good ,
so just ignore any kind of jumping and ,
undecidable behaviors from your dog ,
thanks dick good boy good boy good boy ,
spikes dick good boy ,
you want to make sure where you're going ,
to the variable reinforcement schedule ,
that you're not going quickly from the ,
continuous rate of reinforcement where ,
you're reinforcing every time - only ,
after every 10 repetitions or something ,
you want to start easy make them do ,
maybe two things and get a reward ,
sometimes switch back to after one ,
repetition then switch to maybe three ,
things that he's got to do in order to ,
get the reward but always make sure ,
you're marking the behavior and phrasing ,
and an even penny ,
a common question that we get is now ,
that I got my dog to sit how do I keep ,
them there this is the next step in ,
teaching the sick command so what we do ,
in foundation style training is we don't ,
use a snake man we use a silent state ,
which means that there's a beginning and ,
an end to every command so what we're ,
gonna do with spike here is ask them to ,
sit we're gonna use our marker as soon ,
as he's sitting but withhold the reward ,
for just a second until we say free free ,
is going to be our release word you want ,
to really use a word that is not common ,
in everyday day-to-day conversation so ,
that's why we use the word free in the ,
beginning it's not gonna really have a ,
meaning to the dog so we're just gonna ,
waive the matter's position with the ,
Treat in our hand spike sit good boy ,
free so notice as soon as he put his ,
butt on the ground and verbally told him ,
his marker which was good boy and then a ,
split second later we're not waiting for ,
a really long stay we're not increasing ,
our distance away from him I'm just ,
gonna stay still and then after a second ,
after completing I'm gonna use my hand ,
to wave a magic position spike sit good ,
boy ,
free spike sit ,
good boy good boy ,
free spike sit good boy good boy ,
good boy free as I increase the time ,
that I'm waiting before telling him free ,
um you'll notice I kind of encouraged ,
him along by telling him a good boy good ,
boy is helping him with the but there's ,
the promise of the reward that's about ,
to come so if you say nothing to your ,
dog after you ask them to sit and you're ,
waiting a timeframe before giving a ,
treat what often happens is they get out ,
of position if they get out of position ,
all you do at this point is just get ,
them back into the sit position by ,
showing them the food and asking them to ,
sit again you're just withholding the ,
reward as a consequence of not waiting ,
until they hear the word free spike sit ,
good boy free you want to keep your ,
training sessions short so that you're ,
doing just a couple of repetitions at a ,
time may give you like five or ten ,
repetitions and you want to sprout your ,
training sessions if you can throughout ,
your day so it's more natural for your ,
dog you don't necessarily have to devote ,
45 minutes of teaching sit for your dog ,
the more realistic you can make it and ,
work it into your day such as ask them ,
to sit before you pet them before they ,
eat before they go out a door it makes ,
it more natural and more likely that ,
I'll occur in regular settings .
