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  Commands and Exercises Worked on (underlined words in blue go to directions): Calming Exercises: Sit on the Dog is helps your dog not only learn how to chill but also to learn to be near you not running away.   That is the other half of having a dog that will come on command instead of running away.  This is just one thing that is being worked on.  This is purely a behavioral exercise as no commands come with it. Long Place is both a behavioral and training exercise.  This also promotes impulse control. Obedience Exercises: Still Sit Stay  helps your dog learn to stay still while you, eventually, move around him.  This is also the other side of your dog not running away from you. Circle Sit Stay is where you get your dog used to you walking closely and eventually from a distance around them. Intro to Place is the first step to where we start when teaching the long place.  This just introduces them to their first or their new place obj...

PROPERTY OF MANNERLY MUTTS DOG TRAINING AND ROBIN RUBIN. WE ONLY ALLOW PAYING CLIENTS TO COPY THIS MATERIAL FOR THEIR USE ALONE. THIS MATERIAL MUST NOT BE DISTRIBUTED TO OTHER NON-CLIENT PARTIES OF MANNERLY MUTTS WITHOUT EXPRESS PERMISSION. NOTE ON STAYS:   DO NOT RUSH THROUGH THIS EXERCISE.   IF YOU STOP AT ONE SECTION, BUT DO THE BEST WORK POSSIBLE THAT IS MOST IMPORTANT.   IF YOU CAME HERE MORE ADVANCED, BUT HAVE TROUBLE AT ONE LEVEL, THEN BACK DOWN TO THE PREVIOUS LEVEL, AND GET THAT DONE CORRECTLY BEFORE MOVING ON.   CORRECTLY GOING ON MEANS THAT THE DOG CAN PERFORM THE TASK WITHOUT TREAT OR CORRECTION FOUR OUT OF FIVE TIMES. Equipment Needed: 6' Leash (to begin with) Training Collar (martingale, metal chain collar, or prong collar) 15' Leash (after four out of five stays while on the move with distractions can be accomplished at more than a 6' distance WITH distractions present) Explanation and Goal of Exercise:...

Explanation and Goal:  This teaches your dog that you might very well be in a seated position when they are in a place (while the third step has started the idea that you may be moving around the room).  This is tricky for dogs as they usually want to be petted or cuddled when you take a seat, but it is important that owners have time to read, work, eat a meal, and so on without constantly needing to pay attention to their dog.  Usually this is eventually used for a half hour or an hour. It is like a crate without walls. It allows your dog to feel more included, but they are responsible for staying there until released. This command is valuable when you need to move them out of the way to do chores and/or you have company over.  Long place is technically the 4th step in teaching the place command:    First step is intro. Intro is just walking the dog and letting them pass over it. "Place" is said when all paws are on the p...

Description of the place command:  The place command, when finished, allows you to send your dog to a bordered object on the floor (a folded quilt or blanket, a cot, or a dog bed are some examples) where your dog can stay until you release them for a period of time and they can be comfortable for a period of time, while you do something else.  This exercise also helps your dog to have impulse control, and learn they can’t be the center of everything all of the time.  Equipment needed:   Leash, Collar, and Place Object (something that feels different than the floor like a blanket, cot, or dog bed)  You could also use food (optional) with a food motivated dog for this exercise, especially if they are skittish at first about walking over the place object. Just lure the with the food going over the place object, if you can.  STAGE 1: INTRODUCING THE PLACE OBJECT     STEP 1:   Position your place object (dog bed, dog cot, heavy folded bl...

Explanation and goal of command:  Let’s go simply means move towards you. The goal is to have your dog move towards you when you say the command. This can be used for different purposes such as the following: You want your dog to move towards you and away from something else. For instance, if your dog was annoying another dog, this is a good way to get them to instead move towards you.  If your dog goes to the end of the leash, this is also a good command to train your dog to leave the leash loose.  Equipment needed: Long Line or 6’ Leash, Training Collar, Food Reward (if that is what we are working with)  STEP 1:  You will be holding the end of the long leash for this one.  STEP 2:   In the opposite hand, you will want to be holding the food reward. The food should be preloaded in your hand before giving the command.  STEP 3:   Let your puppy or dog get distracted. If they go to the end of the line, j...

Equipment Needed :   6' Leash (week 1, afterwards we will use 15' long line); Training Collar Explanation and Goal of Exercise:   Formal command that requires the dog's immediate response to the command in a straight line that ends very close to the owner/handler/trainer in a sit position (auto sit). Uses for This Exercise:    This is an immediate directive to return to owner.   This can be just to leash up, or the owner/trainer/handler could see danger up ahead.   This exercise done well and to a standard can not only return your dog to you, but avoid some dangerous situations (hole in the ground, barbed wire, away from wild animal that has come into the yard ET). The following are steps for this exercise: STEP 1:   Start off in a heel. STEP 2:   Close up your feet into the auto sit position, when your dog is walking in heel position.   If your dog does not go into auto sit, be sure to give th...

Equipment Needed: 6' Leash, Training Collar (or a slip lead instead of the leash and collar)  Explanation and Goal of Exercise:   Great for keeping a dog stationary when doing chores around the house.  Stationing a dog in any human or canine social environment when needed.  To keep the dog from greeting too enthusiastically by learning to wait and greet when allowed.  There are many other uses for this exercise.  The dog is required to perform the position of the command, and stay there until the release word is given.  The handler/owner will be increasing the duration first, add in distractions, and finally add on distance from the dog to this exercise.    NOTE ON STAYS:  DO NOT RUSH THROUGH THIS EXERCISE.  IF YOU STOP AT ONE SECTION, BUT DO THE BEST WORK POSSIBLE THAT IS MOST IMPORTANT.  IF YOU CAME HERE MORE ADVANCED, BUT HAVE TROUBLE AT ONE LEVEL, THEN BACK DOWN TO THE PREVIOUS LEVEL...