Teaching Dogs Boundaries With Stay Commands

Long distance stays are definitely more of an advanced stay technique, which your dog will learn after time, routine, repetition and maturity. The process of a long distance stay is similar to a short stay, it just involves a longer distance. This is...

Hold dog for 3 to 5 seconds can be used in the "stay" command as well. After you've addressed the dog with "tin man", bait, apply your hand stop sign for stay, take your step back, hold for three to five seconds. Like I've said in previous commands, the...

Walk to dog to treat and praise. My opinion is that until your dog understands "stay", I do not want you to call your dog to you. The purpose of this is so the dog learns isolation and waits for a release. If the dog doesn't understand the "stay", or...

Visual tin man you have heard throughout our whole dog training series. You can use tin man with all of our commands that we've learned so far, the sit, leave it and now the off. As I've stated the importance of tin man, I want your dog to be aware that...

Depending which hand you hold your treat in, the next step in the "stay" process is holding up your hand just like a stop sign. I am right handed, so I have my treat in the right, I hold my left. If you're left handed, you'll hold your right. I would...