Step 1

When you tell a dog to do something never repeat the command, and the command will always happen. As long as we ALWAYS follow through with what we say there can only be two outcomes to a command:

1. Do what I say and get a reward.
2. Do what I say and don't get a reward.

There is no option 3, which is the dog chooses not to obey the command. Very quickly, once your dog can reliably predict he has to obey the command either way, he will start to do it willingly as he may as well do it and get the reward!

Step 2

The owner initiates everything! YOU decide when to greet, interact, play with and feed the dog. You will be amazed atthe difference in how your dog responds to you once you take control!

Step 3

Change the outcome of the dogs behaviour to get the result you want. Put simply, your dog is doing a behaviour (whatever it is), because of the outcome that behaviour gets - if the outcome of that behaviour changes to something the dog doesn't like or the behaviour no longer works - the behaviour will go away!

Step 4

Your dog must always come when called and never avoid you.

We will show you how to follow through with a command that he chooses to ignore. Here is a good example to simply demonstrate this process:

You tell your dog to "SIT", there can only be two outcomes, as explained above:

1. He sits and you give him a reward of a piece of his favourite food – chicken!
2. He ignores you, so you push his bum on the floor to the sit position (without repeating the command), and he doesn't get the chicken.

If he knows you will always follow through, he now has two possible outcomes to the command – sit and get a chicken, or sit and don't get chicken. Once the dog 100% knows he will have to sit anyway, which option will he choose?