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I've been working with Apollo a lot every day. He can now sit, shake, down, stay and sit back up from a down with no hesitation. We have also been working on heel (with lots of help from the prong collar) and sitting when I stop which he's been doing really well with. I've been keeping the sessions short and tossing in some play time in between to make it fun. And overall, I'm reallllly pleased with the progress he's making. I also noticed that he's a lot more calm now that I have him on a regular training schedule. I do have a couple questions though...
1) Whenever I give a sit command, he will walk over to me and sit infront of me instead of just sitting right where he is. How do I change this so that he will just sit right where he is?
2) He will NOT lay down OUTSIDE. He'll sit, stay, come, and shake perfectly but whenever I ask him to lay down when we're outside, he stares at me like I'm insane...like he's never heard the down command a day in his life. Then, when I try to show him what I want by physically placing him in the down position he goes crazy and jumps back up like he just does NOT want his tummy touching the ground. We've tried this on the grass and cement with no luck. He understands it perfectly when we're inside, so what's going on outside? He'll do everything else so I'm wondering why he's so resistant to lay down.
1) Whenever I give a sit command, he will walk over to me and sit infront of me instead of just sitting right where he is. How do I change this so that he will just sit right where he is?
2) He will NOT lay down OUTSIDE. He'll sit, stay, come, and shake perfectly but whenever I ask him to lay down when we're outside, he stares at me like I'm insane...like he's never heard the down command a day in his life. Then, when I try to show him what I want by physically placing him in the down position he goes crazy and jumps back up like he just does NOT want his tummy touching the ground. We've tried this on the grass and cement with no luck. He understands it perfectly when we're inside, so what's going on outside? He'll do everything else so I'm wondering why he's so resistant to lay down.