Pooch and Mutt's expert trainer, Jon, is here to take us through step by step how to teach your puppy to sit.
Teaching your puppy to sit is often one of the first forms of obedience training you'll do with your puppy, and one of the easiest! Especially when it's approached with patience, love and of course, rewards!
Teaching your puppy to sit
- Traditionally, the way people train their puppy to sit is by paying the pup with a treat or piece of food.
- To start, take a large handful of treats or food. This is going to create a massive scent pattern for your puppy to engage with.
- Keep your hand shut and lure the puppy into the sit position.
As soon as they are in that position, we slightly open our hand and release some food.
- Now lure the puppy up and follow the food again, making sure to keep them engaged with our hand.
- To officially learn the sit command, the puppy needs to keep doing it rather than staying in it.
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Top tip: Your hand only releases food while the puppy is in a sit position. As soon as we start moving and luring it shuts. This is a better way for your puppy to learn as it taps into their natural problem-solving instincts.
- For more stubborn puppies, you can get them to sit by gently tapping their bums and luring them with the other hand.
- Be sure to pair the sitting action with the command 'sit', and you will be able to phase out the food lure and just use the command itself.
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