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Old 12-08-2010, 08:25 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by purplg8r View Post
At what age should you start teaching your puppy to sit? My puppy is 4 months old and I've had her for 2 weeks. I've been starting to teach her to sit, but she gets so excited when she knows I have a treat in my hand that she jumps up to my hand to get it (or searches in my lap for it). Any tricks?
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Now is a great time to be training. Try teaching only from the standing position and keep your hand higher, palm upward. Maybe try working on "stay," and slowly build time that she remains sitting. Reward only when she has done it correctly, otherwise you are rewarding for jumping up to your hand.
^^ This.

You can start training as early as you want.

Here was Jackson at 5 months old. Ignore the repetitiveness of the video and doing same trick over and over, I was proud, he just learned it at the time, haha oh and he hadn't learned to fully roll over, lol
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