We do a short session each morning. He knows sit , stay pretty well. Now we're working on down. By the 5th time he had it .How long should we practice this before starting a new command?
Hi @Jade it's possible to teach your dog a number of new cues without the need to keep practicing just one before moving on. Keep training sessions short rather than training the entire set of new commands at one session. Teach a new cue and then allow the dog to have a nap before moving onto the next new cue.
The other thing to remember is to gradually add distance, duration and distractions (one at a time) to the behaviours you've introduced. So for example with sit gradually extend it to your puppy sitting while you are one, two, three... steps away, or while you walk around, or sit down yourself. Then practise in another room, in the garden, on the pavement outside your house and so on.
