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 🙂
