How to Speak Commands during Dog Obedience Training

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Carl Puentes with K-9 Solutions in Miami, Florida and today I am going to show you dog training techniques from my new book, "Who is Training Whom." Timing is one of the important parts of training. If you do this to the dog to sit him down, and then later once he sat, you say sit. You took too long. You don't want to do this either. You don't want to say sit and then later place the dog. So far a dog to learn what sit means when you say it, you have to make sure you pull and push at the same time you are telling the dog to sit. You will want to pull first and later push and later say sit. You want to do it at the same time. Grab the collar short, sit. You pull forward and up. Tell him he's a good boy for sitting. Give him reason for doing it. That's timing. Pull and push at the same time that you tell the dog the command. "