Teach your dog boundary and barrier.

http://www.SitMeansSit.com Teaching your dog boundaries and barriers can come in very handy for you and your dog. In this video you see my dog demonstrating the command "on the grass". What this command means, is that the dog is free to roam but he has to stay on the grass. I was out of town during this video and it was taken in front of our hotel in a foreign environment to the dog so he could go to the bathroom and stretch a little.

The grass is a boundary that is distinguishable because of its difference in terrain relative to the sidewalk and parking lot. I am standing in the parking lot and shooting this video. You will notice that even when the dog turns he doesn't come back towards me. In order to teach this command effectively, it would be important that you have the ability to stop your dog remotely at any time. Having the ability to stop your dog at any given time is the most important command you can teach your dog. The sit means sit training method not only makes this easier, but also keeps a constant communication line open between you and your dog.

If this dog were to come off the grass, I would just stop him immediately remotely, and get him back on the grass. It would be counterproductive if you could only call him to you for two reasons:

1. There might be danger between you and the boundary and you wouldn't want him just running to you no matter what.

2. He would be working next to you, and the focus of this is the dog being able to maintain his task while away from you.

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• Grass
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• Safety
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• Leash
• Sit
• Obedience
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• agility
• dogs
• puppy
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• terrier
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[bradeaston1]

ughh ok nice vid and cute dog but this only explained it

[kemanchie]

thanks ive used this for my dog ayla to not go on the road shes wonderfully behaved but now its a bigger challenge we own lake shore properety and our neighbours have dogs and stuff so we need to teach her where she can and cannot go but its grass sand and dirt not big differece but you gotta try :) btw ayla is only 8 monthes :)

[Logan63b]

Great video Fred! I will have to stop by your web site and check things out. Max took off out of the back door instead of heading to the back yard. He ran across the street to see neighbors children. Although it's a quite street, I worry what would have happened if a car went by. Thanks for your posts! Have a great day!

[bRadicalmagic1]

What a handsome puppy ! ! !

Thanks for your post.

[DarinShepherd]

Nicely done Fred. A great exercise for any dog to learn.

[SOZRASH]

Perfect! I'll try it with my dog!

[cupcakewhorexo]

man.. if only i could get the dogs at my clinic to learn how to stop being so energetic all the time and actually listen to a command. :( any suggestions? every day they bark nonstop and when we take them out to walk they just lunge at everything and anything and are all over the place, i cant even get them to stop for a second to listen to a command like stop, or sit. SO FRUSTRATING AHHH!!! is there something im doing wrong? all i would like is to stop fighting 70lb dogs & to acutally walkthem

[KIBAfang90]

My dog just understand this trick. She understands strange "barriers" like i will let her out to pee, and if i want her to roam up only to the bushes in the front yard, all i have to do it say "uhuh careful". Whenever she gets near it. Takes about 4 times of the "uhuh careful too close" she will now know the "barrier." To the point where you could do this anywhere in any situtaion, with the weirdest things, like grass in the middle of the street. The tricks so solid, but i never did any training

[killerch0]

Great video, I am having trouble with remote commands with my 8 1/2 month old Labrador.