How to train
4 Month Old Pitbull Puppy
Training Pit Bull Puppy to Come and Stay
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everyone in this video I'm going to be
working with this little pit bull puppy
here and I'm going to be giving you some
tips on teaching your dog to come to you
when you call them as well as teaching
them to stay when you ask them to so one
of the first concepts that I want to
discuss with you is that when we're
first beginning the early stages of the
recall process we want to make sure that
we are able to get the dog moving toward
us when we give the dog the cue all
right so I'm gonna be using the dog's
name this is Izzy and the word come in
notice that I have just a six-foot leash
on her right now because I don't want to
take her off the leash and let her
wander around and then me call her and
she not respond because then she's not
going to learn what I even want from her
as far as learning the cue so what I'm
going to do just kind of move her around
and then randomly I'm going to just call
her to me and I'm gonna come back up so
if she doesn't come that leash is going
to catch is he come
and so that's the first step so you
should take your dog out with a leash on
and practice just calling them letting
your dog come to you and then you're
gonna feed some treats all right and you
want to do a lot of lot of repetitions
of these as the dog starts to get better
we can start to substitute other types
of rewards that the dog me like for
instance with this puppy she really
likes to play tug which a lot of pits do
so I can use this for our reward as well
as food all right so I can move her
around is he come good I can produce a
little tug toy good so you may have saw
in the video right there that she heard
something off in the distance right so
if I if I didn't have this leash on she
may have just taken off and then I would
have called her and she would learned
that she can ignore that command so in
the early stages put a leash on her as
your dog gets better the next thing that
I typically do is extend the leash so
now what I've done is I put her on a 30
foot long line now I can allow her to
move further away from me but I still
can control her if necessary so if I
call her and she doesn't calm I can get
moving backwards and use this line to
guide her back to me so now what I'll
typically do is just kind of wander
around my yard here and then randomly I
would be calling her letting her come to
me getting something that she likes like
food treats or a game of tug and then I
will let her go back to doing whatever
she was doing beforehand which may be
exploring the yard so watch how I do
this
so it's really important that when we
call the dogs that we are able to make
ourselves interesting and exciting we
want to try to be more exciting than the
environment that the dog is in
especially in the early stages so a lot
of times what people do is they make the
mistake of putting the dog into a
situation in which the dog just does not
have enough experience in coming to the
owner so you would not want to start
this with a lot of other dogs out here
in this field with her off leash I'm
going to show you a clip that she is
able to do that currently but when I was
first beginning to work with her a
couple weeks ago there's no way that's I
would not store out there so I want to
create a nice strong foundation of her
coming to me and it being an enjoyable
experience for her and then usually she
gets to go back to doing whatever she
was doing beforehand so it's really
important that coming to me does that
mean that I'm going to do something that
she doesn't like for instance I don't
call her and then put her into a crate
okay so what we'll do now is I'm going
to show you a clip of a that I shot
earlier today if we're coming within a
group of dogs
Eddie come
okay
is he come
the next skill that I'm going to be
briefly discussing is stay so stay is
another really important concept that
all dogs are going to benefit from
knowing I usually start off teaching the
dog to stay on a dog bed so I usually
use the cube place place good stay and
just like come when called I start the
dog off in a situation that it's not
distracting at all for the puppy okay so
when I'm first practicing this I'm
practicing her on the dog bed me pretty
close to her and I'm feeding fairly
often throughout that stay as she gets
better I start to increase the amount of
time in between the food rewards I start
to increase the distance away from her
and then I start to add in various
distracting situations so I may start
off with putting a little bit of food on
the floor and seeing it stay huh huh
stay so if she makes mistake the way I
typically train is I say I mark that
mistake with no bra and I just put the
dog back on the bed okay once the dog is
successful then I'm going to reward the
dog stay as she has gotten better over
the past three weeks with me increasing
the distance and increasing the length
of time kick-ass day I started
introducing other dogs into the room all
right so I start off with one dog then
two dogs and I think a couple days ago I
had several dogs in here during her stay
go ahead I think I have a clip of that
but I'm going to show you
okay so as you can see from that clip
that she was able to maintain the state
within a large group of dogs now there
was no way I was going to be able to do
that on the first week of training so I
took a little bit of time to work up to
that so it's really important that you
are kind of think about that with your
puppy is that you're going to start off
in situations that are really easy for
your puppy to pay attention to you and
then slowly start to raise the levels of
distraction so don't start off in a
situation that's way too difficult for
your puppy to pay attention to you I
hope you can implement some of these
tips with your puppy and I'll see you in
another training video
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