A dog that is poorly trained will give you more headaches than drinking straight bourbon all odd hours of the night, on an empty stomach. It can be annoying, devastating, and embarrassing, not something that you are going to want to show off to your friends and family. But now on the other hand, a puppy, or on that hand that is well trained, will be a much more enjoyable companion, and also much more safe. Take for instance if you dog is running from you and he is outside, when you call him he should return, as he could be running somewhere where he may be in danger, such as traffic on a busy street.

Just remember when you are trying to teach your puppy how to sit, you must be encouraging in every way that you can, such as rewarding the puppy when he carries out one of your commands. Dogs, and especially puppies do not respond well to being yelled at or attacked, most of the time they are just so scared and frightened they really do not know what is going on when you are yelling at them. So do not do that.

The basic process of teaching your dog how to sit, is to get in a routine with the dog and when the dog follows your command, reward the puppy with a treat, as puppies love treats and you will be surprised how smart they will get when they are trying to work for food.

The first step in training your puppy to ’sit’, is to introduce the puppy to the command. Even if you do not have a treat at the time, the puppy can still know when you are praising them from the tone of your voice.  Getting on the same level as the dog is another way that you will be able to treat and greet them to sit also.

Patience is very big here as you will more than likely have to go through the rewarding process many times before your puppy understands the ’sit’ command. One way you may be able to speed up this process is to put the treat on top of the dogs head and just hold it there, the dog will then start to sniff upwards, and hopefully fall into the sit stance while you are instructing him to do so, and when the puppy sits let them get the treat as a reward.

Also the speed of giving the reward is crucial also when teaching your puppy to sit. You are not going to fully teach your dog on how to sit in just one day, but every day that you go over these exercises the puppy is going to learn and be more aware of what the sit command is and what you want him to do, not only that the puppy will soon learn that as soon as he sits he is going to get rewarded with either a treat, or some praising and loving, which puppies love just as much!

Once you puppy has the sit command down to a science, then the the dog training just gets easier after that. You can then move to the next steps of dog training, which are usually the ‘paw’ or ’shake’ command, where the dog will shake your hand. After that you may want to move to the lay down command, the play dead command, or even the roll over command, and there are many other custom commands that you will be able to teach your dog.