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Teaching Your Dog To Lie Down Problems

In this article we will explain how to teach your dog the “down” command, and also cover some of the problems you may come across while training this command with your dog.
With your dog in the sitting position, kneel at his right side and hold his collar in your left hand.
While holding a food treat [...]

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Training Your Dog To Lie Down For A Long Time

The prolonged lie down is an advanced dog training technique. It is similar to the normal “down” command – only it is designed to teach your dog to lie down for a long time – meaning as long as you want him to lie down.
Why would you want to do this? The reason is you’ll [...]

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Teaching Your Dog The Lie Down Command

Training your dog to lie down reliably on your command is an important part of dog training, and naturally follows on from the sit command.
Teaching your dog to lie down on your command also shows him that you’re dominant, which will mean he’s more likely to listen to your other commands, too.
Which will make later [...]

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