Puppy Place!

The puppy version of the place command involves food training and and going over the basics of coming to place, down on the cot and releasing from place. We want to keep these sessions very brief, 5-10 minutes tops! But we can do them frequently over the day. We can’t expect much in the way of duration on place with puppies because their attention spans are sooooo teeny tiny at this age, but what we can do is extend out the food reward a bit so that we can get puppy holding down on place for a few seconds before releasing him. Tan exercise I like to do is kind of like sling shot... every time I release the puppy with food he just can’t wait to come running back to work and getting back on the cot for more! This is exactly the value in food training with young puppies, we can leverage food to cultivate a puppy that seeks out engagement with his handler, build his work ethic and his love of training along with his growing that tiny attention span as we give him a basic puppy introduction to the obedience commands in preparation for his return for adult remote collar training later on!!!