How To Get Your PUPPY TO STAY - STAY COMMAND

Hey guys, welcome back to Fenrir. We are doing something really exciting today that I absolutely love working with puppies and that is sit and stay. I use stay all the time with my puppy Riley just down here. I use it all the time for meal time so that she sits and stays and waits politely for her food and I also use it for when someone knocks at the door as well that I get her in a sit and stay and she has to wait politely until I can say break you can go and do your own thing now. So it's a really useful tool to have in your back pocket whether you're out and about or at home you can use it in loads of different situations and today we're going to talk you through how to build up that sit and stay. So the first thing we want to do is get them interested so I've got some food with me, some treats and as you can see she's already in her sit. Good girl, yes. So she's really engaged with me already and that eye contact is what I'm going to be looking for throughout this process of working with her. So now I have this interaction with her, she's interested in what we're doing, she's ready to work. What I'm going to do to get that stay is I'm going to put a visual and a verbal cue on it so it's going to be a flat hand to say stay. Yes good stay, good stay. All she's really done there is sit and stay for a couple seconds in that position and I've rewarded her. Now all I need to do is build that up so I'm just going to add on some more time now into that stay and another way of doing it is adding a little bit more distance into it. So what I'm going to do is add a little bit more time and a little bit of distance and then do the same process and work it through. So Raleigh sit, stay, yes good stay. Now you see that I'm also coming back to her, I'm not calling her to me because what we're looking for is a stay command. We're not looking for a come command, I don't want her to break that position so what I want to do is keep her in that position until I say yes good stay. That cue of yes good stay is just reinforcing yes this is a good thing what that you've done here and this is a good thing that I want you to repeat. You can use that with sit, you can use that with down, you can use that with anything that yes sit, yes down, yes stay. It's just a cue for her to know yes I've done the correct thing. So something I'm working on here is Raleigh's about six months old and I'm working on building up her engagement with me so usually we're doing this inside. Raleigh, Raleigh, yes good girl. Normally we're doing this inside but obviously today we're outside and there's loads more distractions like new smells and new things so she is getting distracted so it's me pulling her back into attention with me. So as you can probably see as she is a young pup she has started to get quite distracted now we're coming to the end of our training session and she is getting distracted about what's around her. Now something that's so important when you are training a puppy is to always finish on a high so I'm going to get Raleigh re-engaged and finish on that high. A great job, you've done a really good job in this training session. Yes good girl, stay, good stay, good stay, yes good stay, break. So all we've done there is finish her on a high so she's super happy with what she's achieved. I'm really happy with what she's achieved. There's still levels that we can work this up, like I said doing it outside, a new distraction for her, loads of new smells, loads of new sounds, there's so many things that we can build it up. So when you start doing this, start doing it in your kitchen or your living room, just really small short breaks and a stay, yes good girl, good girl and then as you build it up build in those distractions so maybe it's you turning your back walking away, maybe it's you backing up further, even going into another room or like this coming outside and start levelling up those distractions to get that perfect stay as it can become incredibly useful in your day-to-day training.