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Archive for the ‘Puppy Training’ Category

I know you realize you can use your wire crate for your dog to sleep in, but did you realize you can also use it for training?

Watch as this 4 1/2 month old black Labrador retriever learns to heel around other dogs and comprehend’s some whistle work.

Getting your puppy on an elevator can sometimes be a surprising experience. If your puppy is already familiar with some obedience commands such as ‘sit’, and has practiced it in some distracting situations, then it is a lot more likely that it will go smoother when this time comes. It is obviously a bit easier [...]

Teaching your dog to find things can be a lot of fun for both you and your dog. The dog you see in this video is a four -month-old puppy. This training exercise can also get your puppy used to navigating through tall grass. You don’t see it in this video but it’s best to [...]

Teaching your puppy to heel on stairs can be tricky. The puppies natural tendency when he sees uneven objects like a set of stairs is to just run as fast as he can up or down them, you know how that goes! Teaching a puppy to pay attention on stairs is also very good safety. [...]

In this puppy training video, you have to look closely to the right of where my wife Lianne is standing with her yellow Lab, “Dooley”, and you will see a kennel placed there and that is where my young Labrador Retriever puppy “Kohl” is sitting in.   I’m able to control the puppy from across [...]

Does your dog have a favorite toy that he likes to play with?   Have you ever wondered how a dog can develop desire for a toy other than just one?   There are lots of things that you can do with your dog to develop more enthusiasm for different toys, other than just one. This video [...]

I’m sure you all have seen videos of dogs on a surfboard out in the ocean, and you wonder ‘How in the heck did they teach the dog to do that?’. Well, in the dog training video below we will show you one of the many ways that you can get them started. The dog [...]

In the puppy training video below, you will see my 3 1/2 month old black Labrador Retriever learning to ride a skateboard. For most puppies, a moving object such as a skateboard may frighten them a bit when they first see the movement of it, so you want to approach it cautiously. This particular puppy [...]

  My puppy has already learned to get into and out of the water safely, a long with knowing how to retrieve in water also. Today is just a fun little game of having him negotiate a little obstacle on a straight line to the pool. These little games of learning to go straight through, [...]

Mike and Paul, First and foremost – thank you for the training you provided Reese….and me! I must admit, I certainly had my doubts going into this whole thing, but I also knew that I was at my wits end and something had to give. I contacted several different trainers, all with varying programs and [...]

Today’s dog training tip involves the progression of how to teach a dog to fetch a static object while the dog is at a distance from the handler (remotely). Following six month old puppy ‘Phender’ through the steps of how to pick up an object (in today’s case a tennis ball is used) that is [...]

In our featured puppy training video for the day, we followed Sit Means Sit trainer Ashton Fitz-Gerald as he demonstrates how to use a variety of barriers along with a Sit Means Sit dog training collar during his training to teach a puppy how to move tightly into a heel position by his side. Puppy [...]

Training a puppy to pay attention is one of the most fundamental exercises you can teach dog. Teaching them to pay attention around distraction is perhaps one of the toughest things you can do, especially with a puppy. The challenges presented by the distractions present in a dog park are numerous and unpredictable. Sit Means [...]

This puppy training video follows Ashton Fitz-Gerald of Sit Means Sit with his five month old puppy ‘Phender’. Today Ashton is demonstrating how to get your puppy comfortable with staying on a dog bed, in this case it is one of the dog cots that we have available through our online dog supplies store. You [...]

Teaching your dog to sit and to remain stationary until he is either released from the command, or given another different command is very important in your clarity to your dog. A lot of times people have the bad habit of calling the dog to them in the initial behavior training which can influence the [...]

A Puppy is always learning, and with Sit Means Sit dog training, a puppy is never too young to learn or too old to start. We often hear how someone doesn’t want to do anything with their puppy yet, because they don’t want to mess him up. Whatever you are doing with a puppy whether [...]

Sit Means Sit dog trainer Bob Burnell, (Palm Beach Dog Training) brought his 3 1/2 month old puppy ‘Kacey’, to her first event in this video. Bob was doing a presentation at the South Florida Police Expo, and also brought Kacey a long for some exposure to other environments, and of course everyone likes puppys! [...]

Can a 14 year old dog trainer make a difference? Of course they can! 14 year old Mackenzie Aeberli, daughter of Sit Means Sit Franchise owner Cindy Aeberli, is seen here with her 6 month old puppy ‘Ace’. Young adults getting involved in a career that they love at an early age, makes for a [...]

Fred Hassen checking out his new 9 week old Labrador Retriever’s desire to retrieve objects. Fred got the dog dog the night before, and has had the dog for less than 24 hours at the time this video was recorded. It should be fun watching the training videos of this dog as he grows. Here [...]

Morris Chaisson, who runs our Sit Means Sit New Orleans Dog Training office, was very busy at the New Orleans Convention Center which had over 7,000 animal experts for the American Veterinarian Medical Association, showing his Sit Means Sit dog training off to the throngs that were in attendance. Sit Means Sit dog trainers always [...]

This is a dog training video clip of one of the clients of our Los Angeles Dog Trainer Luciano Aguilar, from our Sit Means Sit office in L.A. Teaching dogs to swim is another one of many things that quite a few of the Sit Means Sit locations specialize in, and it makes life easier [...]

This article was Written for The Setember/October Vegas Dog Magazine and the October/November Arizona Dog Magazine 2007 By Toni Drugmand & Fred Hassen Puppy Training – Training can begin as soon as your new pup comes home. By 7 weeks of age, the puppy has a fully developed brain and nervous system. This is the [...]

Whether you adopt a puppy or purchase one from a breeder, puppies come in various shapes, sizes and temperaments. I know they are all cute, but they also need training. Here is a clip from a Sit Means Sit seminars that was done at our Phoenix Arizona location teaching our system with linking food with [...]