Mitsy learned sit and down fast. She'll almost always do it if there's a treat involved, but if it's just a verbal commands, she's pretty iffy.

Anybody got a good way to get her off the treats?

Heather

Hi,

I'm Rae and my little guy is Koda. I have to say your one step ahead of me if you can get Mitsy to lay down. Koda is 7 months and will sit, stay, come when called even when of the lead but lay....no way...LOL

With the treats what I did was to start giving treats at intervals..he'd get one then the next time he wouldn't instead he'd get lots of praise and so on. Then after a week I made it that he got a treat the first time then not the next two times..and so on. Now it's very rare that he looks for a treat.

Hope this helps

Our boy Jackson learned sit, lay, shake and is currently learning to roll over and he's only 4 months old. We've slowly been weening him off treats. Like Rae said, just give him praise instead of a treat every once in a while, then move it to praise half the time, then praise most of the time. Eventually your dog will learn to not expect a treat, but praise instead. This is what was told to me by a dog trainer at the local pet store. We've been slowly doing this and it's definitely showing improvements.

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- Dave

fausto is 14 months and nows the basic commands. with laying down the treats didn't work. he refused to lay on the grass. within the house he does everything. i found out that the toy he loves he will do anything for. so when i show it he lays down. i throw the toy immidiatly. when he has the hang of it i delay the time when i throw the toy. he now does it on command. but he can be soooooooooooooo stubbern! i was training him the otherday and i was teaching him to stay. i hadden't done this before and he stayed in the sit command for a whole minute! he proved again how intelligent he is again!