Training Older Dogs To Stay Off Furniture

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Training older dogs to stay off furniture.

It may be the kitchen counter your bed the living room couch or anything else you don t want your dog on. If your dog is older or has been allowed on the couch in the past you ll need to be more proactive with your training to teach them to stay off the couch now. This will encourage her to go to her bed rather than your sofa. You also can train your dog to settle on his bed using the training described in how to train your dog to settle on the mat 3.

You ll want your dog to be eager to sit or lay elsewhere. Teach your dog a reliable off cue. This can be a difficult command to teach but it is possible. Take a small treat and throw it on the ground a few feet away from the couch where your dog is resting.

Say off and make a sweeping hand gesture as your dog moves from the couch. If you ve recently moved or gotten new furniture teaching them to stay off the new furniture will be easier than keeping them off a couch in a room they ve spent time on in the past. The off command is used to tell a dog to get its paws off of something. It s hard to trade a good thing for a boring or bad thing.

The floor or your dog s bed should be comfortable and enticing. Zakgeorge when you check o. Dogs usually jump up to get to something they want like a scrap of food or a comfy place to sleep. Training your dog to stay off of the furniture consists of two parts.

The act of staying off and the reward received afterward. If your dog does hop on your furniture uninvited you can teach him a reliable off cue. This video is sponsored by molekule. It s time to teach him the off cue a dog friendly way to get your dog to move from the furniture.