While learning the fetch game, it is important that tasty treats be used in place of too much praise, as previously mentioned. Your pup hasn’t yet know what are praise for – so until it is, give your pup so what is known to be a positive reward stimulus – food!
Within three days, have a 10 minutes fetching game, at least three times each day. These fetching drills should be in addition to a five or ten minutes walk on the leash – daily. In this game, your pup will learn the “come” and “sit” commands.
During your retrieving games, if your puppy bring back the play toy to you, place your right hand underneath his chin and the left on his rear end. Press lightly with your left hand at the same time exerting a little amount of upward pressure with your right as you command “sit”.
After you have positioned the puppy to sit, pour on the enthusiastic praise, then toss the play toy out again. When the puppy returns with the toy, withhold any praise until you have commanded “sit” and have placed him in the sitting position. But if your puppy have feel shy, and you fall to get him seated, don’t praise or throw a play toy, and above all, do not give up!
Always Remain Optimistic
Thoughts like “he just won’t do it,” or “he won’t let me,” have absolutely no place in dog training. Use the leash to bring the puppy back to you, command him “sit” and place the puppy in the sitting position. Then give him a tasty treat after every fetch and sit game.
When the third session of fetch and sit game have finish, you will see that it really doesn’t take much left-hand pressure at all to get your puppy seated. You have a 10 minute walk on leash still scheduled for each of the days four through seven. All things will be as they’ve been in the earlier days, except – take four small tidbits with you. Make sure they all tucked away in your pocket – out of sight and scent – as you take the him outside.
After you begin what with the puppy think to be a routine daily outing (where it is essential in the puppy’s), get some tasty treat out of your pocket, kneel down to his level and say his name, followed by the command “come”.
Using the leash, carefully pull the puppy towards you. Reward him with a tidbit, and at the same time pour on the praise. As a result of giving him the tidbit with the praise, your puppy will begin to learn that praise is synonymous with the reward.