How To Train A Dog To Stay
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Teaching this trick will ensure that your dog learns to stay completely still when you ask him to stay despite what is going on around him.
- Have some treats handy and ask your dog to sit or lie down, these positions are better to teach the stay because the dog has to make a conscious effort to change position before moving.
- Take a pace away from your dog and back to him and reinforce his stay then offer a reward.
- Walk around your dog and return to him again to reinforce and reward.
- When your dog is still despite you moving around then make his position stronger by jumping, running and skipping around him. Always reinforce and reward his stay.
Top tip; if your dog won’t stay at all begin teaching this trick by putting his leash on the ground and having a helper stand on the end of it to prevent him moving.
Dog trainers love this trick because it offers control in busy situations.
