Easy Training Tips Newsletter
I’ll be adding some really fun training tips to the SitStay.com Easy Training Tips Newsletter. So far and for the past fourteen years, people and their dogs have been doing really good with my tips. I try to make them easy and step by step so no one feels like they have to go to training school to get results.
When Bruno and Dancer were still living, they and Tilli loved to show off our training to anyone who wanted to watch. It was great fun for me, too. I’d ask the dogs to sit side by side at one end of the warehouse. I’d put a lovely, beautiful smelling pile of treats about halfway down the warehouse floor and point at it and say, “Mine”. Then I would go to the other end of the warehouse. I’d call the dogs one by one by name. Each would come in their turn to me and sit having made a wide berth around the pile of treats. They got pretty dramatic with avoiding the treats sometimes and our audience and I would wind up laughing. Sometimes I think the dogs did that just to get more giggles, they did like to show off. Then I would release only one dog to go back to eat the goodies. Applause all around. I sure do miss those days! It was quite a picture with three gorgeous Belgian Tervuren lined up side by side.
One of Dancer’s best tricks was “Come closer”. I’d call her to me and she’d come. Then I would say, “Come closer” and she’d move her body a little closer to me. Then in a softer voice I’d say, “Come closer” and she’d move even closer. I’d get down beside her, me on my knees. We’d keep it up until finally I’d be whispering very softly, “Come closer” and she would have her body pressed up as tight as she could to me with her face on mine. Another crowd pleaser.
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