How to Teach Your Dog to “Stay” Easily
You might have found to be easy to train your dog with all sorts of commands that ask him to perform a certain action but when it comes to teaching your dog to stay, things can be a bit more complicated. After all, we are asking our dog not to move, not to do anything at all.
So how do we go about teaching our dog to “stay”?
The first thing you need to do is make sure your dog already knows the command “sit”. This way you can starting combining an action you require of him, sitting down, with the passive composure we are trying to get from him. So tell your dog to sit and once he is sitting use the same tone in telling him to “stay”. After a few seconds of staying in his position reward you dog with praise or a treat.
Stand close to your dog, as this will help them stay in the position as you are near to them, and they won’t make as much of an attempt to try to get to you. Encourage your dog with body language.
It is very well possible that your dog wont understand what you are asking from him and he will get up. Just go back to the first step and tell him to sit, immediately followed by “stay”. Make sure this time you are not asking him to stay too long so that you can use the praise technique for your dog doing something right, and gradually build up on the amount of time.
The next step is to start making it a little more complicated by asking your dog to stay and move away a little bit without him moving.
dog training | Danah Reed | 16 February 2009 |
