Ruth as my Demo Dog and training the Moving Sit/Random Sit

 

Ruth goes to one of my obedience classes. Like all my other personal puppies, at 13-14 weeks old, they are my Demo Dog for basic heeling. These videos were her first time ever doing this work. Sometimes it helps my students to observe what the training looks like with a totally untrained dog. Ruth certainly qualifies as 'totally untrained' for these exercises.  

 Ruth then does Right Turn to AS (Auto Sit)  

 Finally, Ruth demo's all of the Week 2 material. ========================================================================================================================================= 

 Here's revisiting teaching the Moving Sit  

 The Moving Sit eventually becomes the Whistle Sit  

 To transition from Moving Sit to Random Sit, use a Place Board as a 'target' to help learning dog understand

   

 And an adult dog, Kara, finally connects the mental dots to grasp the Random Sit means NOW