Trainability
Lesson 5: Teaching Your Dog to Lie Down

Why is it important to teach your dog to lie down on command? In a word: control.
A dog that is lying down is not chasing a cat, barking at other dogs, getting under your feet while you’re trying to cook dinner, or otherwise being a pain in [...]

Trainability
Lesson 4: Teaching Your Dog to Stay

It’s not easy for a dog who loves being with you to stay where she is while you walk away. But teaching your dog to stay has many benefits. For example, a dog that stays on command can be kept out of harm’s way when you need to [...]

Lesson 2: Teaching Your Dog to Sit
Even if your dog already knows how to sit on verbal command, please don’t skip this lesson. We promise she’ll begin to learn something new!
The method you’ll use to teach your dog to sit is known as the “lure and reward” method. You’ll lure your dog into [...]

Lesson 1: Teaching Your Dog His Name
Even if your dog already knows his name, please don’t skip this lesson. We promise you’ll learn something!
The first thing we all teach our dogs, even before we realize we’re doing any training, is that when we make a certain specific sound, we want their attention. This “sound” [...]