[Elle64]

Originally Posted by matese

Train simple sit, stay, wait etc. make them no more then 5 to 7 minutes training sessions through out the day. Anything longer then 5 /7 minutes they are not listening to you. Reward with treat and lots of praise. Cody learned all basic commands in appox one hour, all no more the 7 minutes through out the day. When he got one command down pat I went on to the next command, he is 4 yo and adopted, he's very smart and very FOOD motivated. In one week he had down pat sit, stay, wait, drop it, leave it and roll over, he also knows all hand commands. At 8pm every night he DEMANDS his treat, he has to perform all his commands to get this, a small piece of treat for each command, also through out the day I will randomly throw out a command,reward with lots of praise no food reward.
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Thanks we are using the the treat method for biting, barking too much etc and it seems to be working well.