Distractions – Delightful Dogs

Build On Your Dogs Success

Add new skills as your dog masters old ones.

Ex: When your dog sits every time you say “sit” in your bedroom, kitchen, and living room (etc), take it to the backyard and practice in the back yard, then front yard. Practice with different family members in different locations. Then take it to the park, Home Depot, a family or friends house… practice in as many locations as possible. Do this with all the behaviors your dog knows inside the house.

Then go back to your house and work on distance… can you tell your dog to “sit” from 5 feet away? 10 feet? 20 feet?? You may need to break this up by foot… start small, but figure out YOUR goals… how far away from you would you like your dog to respond and work towards that goal.

Work on each behavior in the same formula 🙂

Keep it Simple

We want to see your dog succeed in every training session… so make it easy. Lower distractions, up the value of the reward (especially in a new location).

Distractions- Always start out in a low distraction area (usually your home, in a room with no other people or animals). As your dog understands the behavior your teaching, you can up distractions, just know that sometimes behaviors fall apart in the beginning… just know this is totally normal. Just stay patient and don’t move too fast with the distractions.