Teaching the Stand

The Stand

I started shaping the stand when my pup was little but I got away from it. The position isn't where it should be and that's my fault. We've been working on it a little bit the last few days. We've been working it in the typical fashion with food and a hand lure. We've doing reps on the box and off the box.

He's been catching on and doing pretty good so I tried asking from a distance and the dog started to creep forward a bit, taking a step or two forward.

I'll use spacial pressure to move him back into position and then we start the exercise again. Anyway, this is how I've always done it. It works, but I know other people must be doing it better.

I'd be interested to hear from other people on how they teach this.

Any discussion or even resources would be cool.

Thanks!

This might be a beginner question, but when you say stand, do you mean like a formal stand and stay in obedience, or more like the trick where they sit up pretty on their back legs? I’m still learning all the different terms and I don’t want to mix them up. Either way, it sounds like your pup is doing really well with it! I'm no help on this one

Kaia Murphy said:

This might be a beginner question, but when you say stand, do you mean like a formal stand and stay in obedience, or more like the trick where they sit up pretty on their back legs? I’m still learning all the different terms and I don’t want to mix them up. Either way, it sounds like your pup is doing really well with it! I'm no help on this one

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Formal obedience stand.

I know it was many years ago, but I used to start by putting a piece of wood in front of my dog's front paws and then gently running my hand down his side and under his groin to encourage standing from the back legs.

I know methods will have changed, though, since I did competitive obedience back in the '70s and early '80s!