How to Introduce "Stay" to a Standing Dog

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Elise McMahon for Expert Village and we are talking today about how to teach your dog a reliable stay. If you would like to find out more about my services, you can visit my website at canineheadstart.com. So we were talking now about introducing the stay and we have discussed the very first time you start even to use a behaviour that your dog is familiar with. Now that we have introduced that concept, we can use another position that your dog might be less familiar with and that would be the down or the stand for most dogs. So I am going to just show you how to do that with both of those behaviors. Munchkin this way… good girl… I am going to ask her for a different position. Ursa sit… down… good girl… .stay. I am going to just again stay by her and reward her for holding that position. I am not challenging the situation by trying to move away from her. I am giving her frequent rewards and then I release her. Okay good girl. Now we are going to do it in the stand. Here sweetie… Ursa… stand… stay… good girl… good girl… now the stay requires the dog… good girl okay. The stand stay requires that the dog not move her feet from the position that you put them in. Not every dog owner is going to be that specific but that's really what we are asking for when we ask for a stand, stay. You put them in a position and they hold that position. So you can see that we have moved from working with an easy behaviour for the dog working with the sit into working with a slightly more difficult behaviour for the dog which is holding the down and holding the stand and in the beginning of working with this you are just going to stay right there with your dog. "