Training Basics: Come

Why hello there, pup! Teaching a dog to come is really easy and almost always considered a necessary obedience trick. Lets get started:

Items for training: long leash, yummy treats.

What to do: take your puppy to an open place with lots of new scents and smells, like the yard. Be sure that the leash that he is on is short but not to short (about three or four feet). Get out your treat, but don't show it to him. Call "come!" in an encouraging way, and then reel him in whether he resists or not. Once he has come to you, give him the treat and lots of praise. Repeat countless times. Every other five times, let him have a little more slack with the leash until you can call him and he comes to you with out you reeling him in. Repeat on this level several more times. When you think he is ready, take the leash off entirely, but do not stop giving him treats. Overtime, start to wean the dog off the treats by alternating when you give the dogs the treats. (Aka: call him and dont give him a treat,call him and do give him a treat.)