What is the best way to teach a dog stay?

Question

I want to teach my 11 month old Yellow lab mix (mom- lab, dad- mystery) stay. That way, when i will it, she can stay in one spot.

Answer 1

Teaching Your dog to stay can be useful in certain circumstances and it also helps to teach Your dog steadiness and patience.

With Your dog in the sit position ask him to stay, hold your hand up with your palm facing Your dog and take two steps backwards. If Your dog stays in position return to him and give him a treat. Repeat this exercise until Your dog is quite happy to stay until you return to him. If he moves out of position make sure you put him back in EXACTLY the same place.

It is vital that you do not call Your dog to you, you MUST return to him. If you call him to you after he has stayed, each time you ask him to stay he will be anticipating you calling him and this will make the stay exercise very difficult for him.

Next time take three steps back and again return to Your dog and give him a treat. As you become more confident move further away from Your dog. Do not move on to the next stage until he is 100% reliable at each point. Eventually I would like you to be able to walk all the way around Your dog at a distance of three or four paces.

The next stage is to do an out of sight stay. Get Your dog to stay and move out of sight for just 2 seconds. Don’t ask too much of him until he is confident that you will come back. There is no need to rush this. The more you are working with him the more he will be getting your full attention and having something else to occupy his mind.

PS: Forget duct tape!!

Answer 2

The best way is first to put her leash on her and have her stand in front of you or beside you. Then tell her "Stay" and at the same time give her a hand signal to associate with the word. Hold up your hand like a policeman does when he wants you to stop. After you do this, then step back one step and if she moves to get up, go back to where you were and tell her "Stay" again. If she does, give her a treat. Then continue this for several minutes. Do not do too much at the time though because she'll get tired out. Try for 5 minutes. Then when you are finished working with her, the two of you can play together. Do something that she especially likes if she has done good and stayed every time or you might give her a special treat. Continue practicing with her a few minutes at the time and be consistent.

Answer 3

I use a long leash, and loop it around an object, such as a small tree (outside) or a heavy table leg (indoors), then while still holding the leash, put the dog in a down or sit, and 'stay' , using hand signal. Do this in slow increments of time. The first time you will only be asking for about 10 seconds. If the dog begins to get up during those seconds, pull on the leash, which is looped around the object behind him and repeat the hand signal and 'stay'....don't use any extra words....then give him the signal that it is OK to get up, and go to him and praise him, like he won the lottery.
Normally a lesson will not sink in until the 14th repetition. When he is catching on, begin lengthening the time he 'stays.

Use praise, rather than correction, and this will stay fun for him, and you.

Answer 4

What you can do is get a piece of food or a toy your dog likes and tell the dog to stay. Hold the toy or food in your hand and when the dog stays for about 10 seconds give it the treat or food. The food works a lot better because sometimes you might not be able to take the toy away!! After that repeat to your dog that it is a good girl/boy

Answer 5

1. Be sure your dog understands a release command, such as "free" or "okay," before teaching this command.

2. Have your dog sit or lie down in front of you. (See Related eHows "Train Your Dog to Sit" and "Train Your Dog to Lie Down.")

3. Place your hand, palm open, in front of your dog's nose and give the command "Stay."

4. Say "Good" at the exact moment your dog exhibits the behavior you want.

5. Give the release command immediately after (within 1 to 2 seconds), followed by treats and unlimited praise.

6. Reward your pet even if she only "stayed" for 1 second; and always offer rewards for even slight indications of understanding.

7. Lengthen the amount of time your pet remains in the stay position very gradually, and slowly move farther away.

8. Remember to give the release command after every successful "stay" as you increase the length of time your dog must remain in the position.

9. Avoid going into another room until your dog fully understands the command.

10. Train in 5-minute sessions.

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Answer 6

Get her to memorize one word. Say STAY then give her a treat and at the same time make her seat with your right hand by putting your hand on her head and then slowly push her back until she seats. Do it lots of times until the day you say STAY and she will look at you waiting for the treat and because you dont have any she will just stay there. BUT, if you have a treat she will seat, so now you taught her two tricks. It worked for the two dogs I have.

Answer 7

a little at a time. Have your dog sit. give a treat and a lot of excitement "good dog, woohoo." then up the ante. have your dog sit and stay while you walk six inches away and treat. 1' and treat. extended periods of time and treat. walk around your dog and treat.
just remember to be patient. 30 seconds to you is like three and a half minutes to your dog.

Answer 8

people attempt this the position I stay besides, and that is not quite intelligent IMO. Their dogs are those that run off and wander away, hit by using a vehicle, picked up by using animal administration, etc. that is in simple terms not secure to enable your dogs out off leash in an unfenced backyard. positive, some dogs are educated and do not leave their proprietor's backyard, yet nonetheless, something might want to take position. that is volatile.

Answer 9

I taught my chocolate lab to sit by having him lay down and repeat stay over and over. When he stays for a little bit i give him praise and a treat until he get the hang of it. Pretty soon i just have to say sit and he did it on his own without the treat.

Answer 10

First work on sit...or down(lie down)
Using a choker correctly will help you tremendously.....Have the dog sit USE a hand command and voice at the same time "STAY" with your rt hand hold it palm torward their muzzle..."do not touch or hit the dogs nose"

Practice short intervals at first 15 sec then longer
(slowly increase)Sit up to me 3min---Down a lot longer ---just start very slow and build up

In between give them a break say "okay" or "break" and let them be a pup

If they break before you say "okay" put them back in the exact spot and say "no" as soon as they do it