What's your daily training plan?

Hello all,

Just curious as to what other people daily training is like?

For me at meal times, I use half of Ralphy's kibble to eat in his bowl, once he is finished we will head out into the garden and do some training with the other half. Currently heel work, sit stay, lie stay.

I also have a little treat bag in my pocket, for when he toilets outside, and practicing recall.

Not sure if this is the best way, but working so far.

How does your training go?

 

For Tilda it's whilst out for a walk, she sits stays, comes to me when I call, walks beside me on and off the lead, picks up scents etc...
We get home, she sits and waits whilst I put her dinner down, then waits a little longer, then she is told she can eat it.
We have little retrieving sessions in the evening too.
When she was younger (9-12 weeks) I'd give heft rests for toilet outside- now at 15 weeks she just gets lots of fuss.

She got to the point when she would run out in the garden pretend to wee then come to me and sit for a treat! That's when I stopped the treats.

 

Give her treats**

 

I do the training just before meals - makes them much keener!

 

I use small Apple pieces as treats a lot, Millie do anything for apples. I also do some stay and sit training when I throw her toys/ and I say sit and stay and throw kibble all over the kitchen floor. I basically always make her do something to get anything. She's 5months now and she knows sit/stay/paw/lay down/bark/roll over/come/heel

 

I haven't put anything on cue yet with Betsy. And I haven't trained sit or down. All I've been doing is training release, targets, recall, stop, walk with me, and default behaviours. Massive emphasis on default impulse control.

I am never, ever, training 'paw'. Nothing more I have regretted training with Charlie than 'give paw'. Dratted behaviour.

 

Oh yes that paw is now very annoying.

 

Well I can agree now after Millie knows it but I use paw in difficult situations and I noticed I get her full attention outside if I say paw. Which is helpful to me at the moment.

 

Be prepared for people to ask Betsy for her paw and then look down their noses at you when you say she doesn't know that. Forget the rest of the challenging stuff they can do, no, people just want to get your dog to "sitsitsitsitsitsitsit" and "pawpawpawpawpawpawpaw".