Or sit on the floor and place your feet on the floor with your knees up (make a bridge) put the treat through the gap and they will lie down to reach it. Learned this from Victoria Stilwell. I followed her advice when teaching Bogie to sit and had him sitting right away. Now all I have to do is raise my arm in an elbow bend and he sits.
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of OKreationZ Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] Training Question Put your chi in the sit postion.. Take your treat and bring it from the chi's nose to the floor and out away from her.. While saying down.. They actually get it pretty quickly.. Though I have one that will not lay down on tile . Lol.. Huggles Pat in OK (PS.. My dogs trained with the big boys and NO ONE in our class used a slip collar.. I think they are cruel) -------Original Message------- From: wistagirl1 <mailto:[email protected]> Date: 10/19/2010 2:09:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Chihuahuas] Training Question Hi, I'm a new member of this group. About five months ago we adopted our Chihuahua, Delia from a shelter. She has been so much fun, and gets along great with our three cats. We recently started a basic obedience class. She is the only little dog in the class, and it's a bit challenging because we can't use a slip collar for correction like they do on the large dogs. Part of last night's lesson was to lie down or the "down" command. The trainer told us that it's very difficult to teach little dogs to lie down. Have any of you successfully trained your Chi to lie down? ------------------------------------ " Lets talk about our wonderful little friends! Join today! " Yahoo! Groups Links
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