Dr. Yin's Animal Behavior and Medicine Videos
Teaching a Dog to Sit Politely Rather than Jump
Here is a video demonstrating how to teach a dog to sit politely rather than jump up when you are sitting on the couch. This can transfer into having the dog sit politely for permission to jump into your lap, instead of just leaping on you when you least expect it.
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Training Sit: Say Please and Suddenly Settle Demo
Watch to see the importance of your body language and movement when training this exercise. See how to start with the easy version of the exercise and make it more challenging and fun.
Sit for Petting: Stellah Learns Self Control
Training a dog to sit for petting is a great way to help teach the dog self control. Stellah the english bulldog has a history of being very pushy. In this video, Dr Sophia Yin practices having Stella remain sitting no matter how excited she gets from the petting.
Podee is dog aggressive. Watch how Dr Sophia Yin trains Podee to perform behaviors around other dogs in order for him to form a positive association. She uses the basic Say Please by Sitting exercise and turns it into a fun game.
