Recall By Spot · Week 5 – Recall: Making My Own Name Sound Irresistible Dad says this is the big one. The cue that, if I only ever learned one thing, this should be it. So I paid attention. Mostly because there were a lot of treats involved. 🐾 Why Recall Is the One That…
Stay By Spot · Week 4 – Stay: The Hardest Thing They’ve Asked of Me Sit? Easy. Down? Fine. Drop it? Sorted. But “stay”? Asking a dog with my energy to simply… do nothing? For several seconds? This was going to take everything I had. 🐾 The Objective According to Brain Training for Dogs, “stay”…
Leave It & Take It Week 2 – Leave It & Take It: Spot Nails It Some dogs need a little convincing. Spot needed about 30 seconds. 😄 The Exercise Today we worked on two of the most useful cues in the Brain Training for Dogs course – leave it (lämna) and take it (varsågod)….
Sit & Down Week 1 – Back to Basics: Sit & Down Spot already knew how to sit and lie down. So why did we start there anyway? Simple. Because knowing a command at home is very different from knowing it anywhere. And if we’re going to build real reliability with Brain Training for Dogs,…