Sit: adding the cue
Is your dog performing a new behavior reliably, but not necessarily when you want him to? Maybe you're hoping for a sit, and your dog is frantically running through his entire repertoire trying to find a behavior that will earn a reward. When this happens, it means that you haven’t named the behavior yet—you haven’t added the cue.
A cue can be added as soon as your dog is offering a behavior regularly. By putting the behavior on cue, you are telling your dog that offering that specific behavior will pay off. In this video, Karen Pryor Academy Certified Training Partner Amber Quann demonstrates how to add a cue for “sit.”
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