Lesson 8: Temporary Boundaries – “stay back”
Summary In this lesson, we are introducing temporary boundaries with a ‘’stay back’’ command. We are going to break the introduction of the ‘’stay back’’ into Phase 1 and Phase 2. Phase 1: Only goal is that your dog stops forward progress when you say ‘’stay back’’NOTE: Use of body language to get a message [...]
Lesson 7: Meeting and Greeting People
Summary Let’s start meeting people on our walks. In this lesson you are going to utilize that ‘’with me’’ position to approach people. BASIC RULES to keep in mind: The dog has to go up to the person with you at your speed They have to sit while being petted You are going to [...]
Lesson 6: The “come” and finish to heel
Summary Welcome to the introduction to the come command or calling your dog. We are also adding a bonus lesson called finishing the dog in heel position- after we learn to call our dog over to sit in front of us. In this lesson, you will see our students learning the basic come command [...]
Lesson 5: The “stay”
Summary In this lesson, you are going to start to challenge the third element of the progression of difficulty – what you are doing while your dog is doing the sit. We’ll use the command ‘’stay’’ which means, “now I am going to do something else, and you’ve got to stay there and [...]
Lesson 4: Walking in the “with me” position
Summary This lesson is about learning a more controlled semi-guided walk with your dog. This may seem more familiar to you because you may be used to walking like this with your dog on the shorter leash. The main thing to think about in this lesson is that even though this is [...]
Lesson 3: Walking in the “behind” position
Summary We are upgrading the degree of difficulty and adding more structure to how your dog needs to walk with you. This lesson is teaching our dog to walk behind us on command. We are letting our dog know that they only have the semi-circle behind us to walk after we give him the [...]
Lesson 2: Revisiting the sit
Summary In Lesson 2 we are going to revisit the sit command! The main point is that the sit must be functional. If the sit or any command can’t be applied to real life, then your dog doesn’t know it on a functional level. In this lesson, the main thing is to get used [...]