1. Ask your puppy to sit.
Use your cue word and help with a hand signal if needed.
To trust your dog to hold a stay in different situations, it’s good to practice the skills you teach him with distractions as soon as your puppy can hold a sit for a few seconds. Your puppy learns that no matter what goes on around him, or whatever silly things you do, his job is to wait for his release cue.
These are the main points of the lesson.
Use your cue word and help with a hand signal if needed.
Keep talking to her in a calm, happy voice while her bottom is on the ground.
Hand the treat from above the puppy’s head, so that she doesn’t have to stand up to get it.
Stay silent for a while.
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Try adding these distractions little by little. The slower you move your hands and feet, while praising your puppy in a calm voice all the time, the easier it will be for your puppy to stay still. Keep rewarding your puppy for sitting all the time she is sitting.
Bring the treat back to your puppy’s nose as quickly as possible. Do your distraction so quickly that your puppy doesn’t have time to react to it.
You and your puppy are going to face a lot of situations where your puppy needs to stay calm and patient when something really exciting is happening around him. Distraction training will help your puppy understand that he needs to keep his position no matter what is going on around him.