It's important that training is contextual...ie..if you are teaching a SIT.....what are you teaching it for? Just because you can or because it has a relevance to everyday life.
Sit should be your first "good manners" cue...so she should Sit for you when she has her lead on, when she is waiting for her food, before you step out of the front door, when she greets people and so on.
Stop! cue shouid be to keep her safe, down to help her keep calm and to teach her to settle etc.
You need to build all these sorts of things into a daily way of living with your dog so that it becomes an automatic part of your daily routine.
When we have rescue pups here they are crate trained so that theyr have there "own space" to retire to.
From here it is very easy to teach, firstly that they must sit to have the crate door opened and once this is learnt, then to teach teh beginnings of a Wait before they can step out of the crate.
Consistency is everything, if you do the same thing is the same way the pups learn fast.
They are all fed in their crate...after a couple of days when teh kongs or activity balls or bowls come out they will run to crates and sit in them waiting for their grub..bless.
If they get given a bone to chew they will take them automatically to their crate to gnaw on.
They learn where the clickers are kept and they toys...they learn fast where teh fun things come from and what they need to do get that fun stuff.
So make your training relevant to your life and always make it fun for both of you..if it is a chore you are doing something wrong...BOTH you and your dog should look forward to sessions together. :-
