How to Teach a Dog to Sit

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Teach your dog the most basic and easiest command--sit. Use lots of praise and rewards, and your dog will be sitting on command within three days.

By: kxgen

Length: 2:03

Comments: 8

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Instructions

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Difficulty: Easy

Tips & Warnings:

  • Be patient.
  • Praise your dog repeatedly.
  • Do not use excessive force.

Step1
Stand in front of your dog, and put the collar on your dog.
Step2
Say your dog's name, and promptly give the command 'SIT'.
Step3
Reward your dog with lots of praise and treats.
Step4
Repeat. Do this for about 5 minutes a day. Your dog should be sitting on command within 3 days.

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on 6/20/2008 Interesting video about training a dog. My computer would not permit me to watch the entire video,but I liked your beginning. There are great books out there on the subject. I recommend any Barbara Woodhouse book to anyone interested in training any dog. Saw her no public television. She is excellent.

Tippy said

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on 6/7/2008 Great video. Entertaining.

imagery said

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on 1/31/2008 The video is very funny. Good job for your first one! I think with a puppy, you need to do a correction because they don't know the command. Like TJ25 says, pull up on the leash and if need be push gently down on the rear while giving the command. Ender looks like a great dog. Is he named after the book "Ender's Game"? Just curious

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on 9/29/2007 yes but that only works for a dog that already know what the command sit means but to a puppy who has no idea what you're saying a trick that always worked for me was when they are on the leash repeatedly say the command and lightly pull up on the leash until they sit, then reward them

kat72895 said

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on 9/28/2007 fun to watch

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