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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  I agree with the theory behind it, but in practice, I found that I sometimes do have to say the command more than once. The idea is that you don't want to have to say "sit, sit, sit" to get them to sit. I do think you should pause for a few seconds, but I found that when I introduce a hand signal to the command, he learns the word much better. If we are working on a new trick, and Joey gets a little sad or frustrated I switch back to a trick he knows or just do the fetch trick, and his confidence comes back. Humans have to understand that our language is very foreign to them, and dogs will never learn words as easily as tone. I use the word uh-uh, for "no" during training, and he doesn't seem to get as frustrated, he knows the word uh-uh means he can do something else to get the reward. |
I haven't taught him anything, or should I say much, and I can't come up with a good hand signal for sit. He kinda knows "come" and I pair that with tapping the floor so that he knows where he is going. He also knows "not to far" but that one only really applies when we're outside and he's walking off leash. He kinda knows his sit, but he only really does it when he wants to be let out of his expen, he knows to sit before I let him out, and he was starting to sit for his food, but I stopped doing it for a while and now he looks at me like I'm nuts, almost as if he was saying "I didn't have to sit for breakfast, so why do I have to sit now?".