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The Ultimate Sit |
The Ultimate Sit is the Swiss Army Knife of companion dog obedience.
The Versatile Ultimate Sit
Your dog pays no attention to you and is easily distracted by every little thing. How do
you resolve this?
With the Ultimate Sit.
Your dog dashes through the door the instant you open it, slamming into your leg and
nearly (or completely) bowling you over in its
frenzy to run out the door. How do you resolve this?
With the Ultimate Sit.
Your dog leaps up and plants its muddy paws on everyone it meets. How do you resolve
this?
With the Ultimate Sit.
Your dog is a maniac on the leash, pulling, forging, gasping for breath as it drags you
down the sidewalk. How do you resolve this?
With the Ultimate Sit.
Your dog lunges on the leash and barks excitedly at oncoming dogs or people. How do you
resolve this?
With the Ultimate Sit.
Shaping focus on the handler with a desirable reward.
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The Ultimate Sit is the Swiss Army Knife of companion dog obedience. By applying
operant conditioning techniques, appropriately timed reward, proper voice and body command, and
effective leash management, you can create the enthusiastic, focused, and reliable sit.
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A significant component of effective dog training and behavioral modification is replacing
one unwanted behavior (for example, jumping on
people) with another more desirable behavior (sitting calmly and focused on you).
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Introducing duration -- extending the length of time your dog focuses on you.
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Taking focus skills to the next level. Your dog learns to
maintain uninterrupted focus, even when you are not making direct eye contact.
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Our goal is
to make the new desired behavior far more rewarding to your dog than the unwanted misbehavior.
By properly teaching the Ultimate Sit, you are replacing a formerly
satisfying and self-serving misbehavior with a far more gratifying and pleasurable obedient
behavior.
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As your dog learns that a calm, focused sit is the most self-rewarding behavior she
can offer you -- even more rewarding than jumping, barking, lunging, or dashing here there
and everywhere -- she'll increasingly devote more and more of her mental and physical
resources to producing that new obedient behavior. And less and less of her resources to the
former misbehavior.
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Increasing the duration of uninterrupted focus, without handler eye contact.
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Increasing the distraction -- maintaining uninterrupted focus with other
people and dogs nearby.
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The Ultimate Sit can be equally effective with a completely untrained puppy,
or a mature dog with longstanding, entrenched misbehaviors. The basic strategy is the same, regardless of the dog: first
teach the behavioral skill, then incrementally introduce increased duration, distraction, and distance.
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Sound complicated? It isn't. Simply stated, when properly taught, developed, and maintained,
the dog performing the Ultimate Sit on command commits fully to that activity, and disregards the environmental
distractions and stressors that previously incited reactive misbehaviors.
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Combining increased distraction and duration -- maintaining focused
obedience with multiple environmental distractions.
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Adding distance to distraction and duration -- all the while
maintaining focused obedience.
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With instruction and guidance from an experienced and knowledgeable
trainer, even the novice companion dog owner newly equipped with the proper skills and techniques can quickly learn how to
teach their former canine juvenile delinquent the Ultimate Sit. And more importantly, create the
focused and obedient companion dog.
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Positive and consistent handling and behavioral management is key to teaching the formal sit. If you would like to learn how to teach your dog positive alternative behaviors, consider enrolling for Online Dog Training with a supplemental telephone consultation.
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