Luring Sit, Down (ish), and Attention to Name

 EXERCISE 1  Their Name Meaning Attention to You in Distractions:

NOTE:  THE FIRST FOUR EXCERCISES CAN BE DONE IN A LURING SESSION BY ROTATING THEM.  IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE WITH ONE, YOU CAN SEPERATE THAT OUT FOR ANOTHER SESSION LATER.


STEP 1:  Your puppy should be on their 6' lead and a collar.
STEP 2:   Be sure you are prepared with  kibble in your hand  BEFORE giving a command.
STEP 3:  Say your puppy's name.
STEP 4A:   Immediately upon your dog looking into your face (and not glancing immediately away), say your release word "yes" and deliver the food reward as you release them.
STEP 4B:   If they do not look to you, first try calling their name again.   Give them a few seconds in between so you aren't just rapidly firing off their name.   If they are just really enamored of something other than you, you could try to gently tug on their leash and see if they will turn.   You could also try to make a silly noise after you say their name.   Usually though, once they know what the deal is with the food reward, it does not take more than three times to get them to look at you.
STEP 5:   You can either repeat this exercise from STEP 1 or start doing a sit or down rep (as described below).

Repeat for approx 10-15 repetitions.   If it becomes too easy for them in a distraction, you can start putting toys around her ET to ensure they gets distracted.   The first week is usually very light on distractions around the puppy though.

EXERCISE 2  Lured Sit: (remember we don't say the command sit at this point until her bum hits the ground and her two front feet are also on the ground)

STEP 1:  Take the treat and hold it right up to their nose (do not snatch it away if they jump or keep it far from their nose).
STEP 2:  Then you move the treat past their head and over their rump area.    Make sure they follows your hand and that you do not move it too quickly.
STEP 3:   Once their bum is on the floor and their two front feet are also on the floor, give them the food reward and say "sit".

Repeat for approx 10-15 repetitions each session.

EXERCISE 3  Lured Down:

STEP 1:  Start your puppy off in the sit position.
STEP 2: Holding the treat in front of their nose, move your hand down to the floor (slowly make sure the nose is following, and then on the ground away from her).   If it does not work the first time, you can just set your puppy up and begin again (also in the beginning, they don't need to put their belly down, but just hunch down with their butt still on the ground).   Remember to move the treat slowly and near your puppy's nose.   You want your puppy's nose following your hand and the treat into position.   If  your puppy has a real hard time with this, you can warm her up or just do the luring under your bent leg on the floor for the down at first.
STEP 3:   Once the puppy is in a down position, give her the food reward as you say down.

Repeat for approx 10-15 repetitions each session.

Comments

  1. LaurieApril 11, 2024 at 1:46 PM

    Still not going all the way into down, just stretching forward and still sometimes lifting her butt. Although she is lifting her butt less often, so that's progress.

    Attention is getting faster, but it still takes her a couple of seconds to react to it.

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  2. LaurieApril 13, 2024 at 11:53 AM

    Same... still not going all the way down, lifting butt less often.

    Looks to me sometimes before I even call her name.

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