How to teach your dog to lay down

Step 1: Call your dog over using your voice, hand motions, or a treat.

Great dog treats are leftover biscuits, hot dogs, or bits of dog food in your palm, but recommended

treats come in bags at your local grocery store.

 Step 2: Get your dog to sit by using the steps in the "Sit" page on my blog.

Step 3: Using a treat,hold it towards the ground in front of your dog while he is sitting.

If well trained, he will crawl down and get it. Now say "Lay Down"

Step 4: Now he is laying down. Give him a treat, pet him, and say good boy!
Praise will help your dog learn much quicker. Make sure and do it every few days for about 2 weeks, and he will soon learn it. CONGRATULATIONS!!! This is a bit of a hard trick for your dog to learn,
so if you have mastered it, you are a master. :)

How to teach your dog to shake

 Step 1: Call your dog over with your voice, hand signals, or a treat. Good examples for treats are leftover biscuits, hot dogs, or bits of dog food in your palm. The recommended treat is an actual dog biscuit out of a bag bought from your local grocery store.

      

Step 2: Get him to sit by using the steps in the "sit" tutorial featured on my blog.

 Step 3: After getting him to sit, next hold your dog's paw up.

He my lick your hand, but only very wild dogs will bite you.

Hold it up for about 5 seconds, then let go. Give him the command "Gimme Paw" or "Shake"

Step 4: After about 20 times of doing it, which takes about two weeks, he should learn it, and every time you

say "Shake" or "Gimme Paw", he should put his paw up into your hand.

 You have taught your dog how to shake.

How to teach your dog to sit

                                             HOW TO TEACH YOUR DOG TO SIT!!!

Step 1: Call your dog over. Use treats, hand signals, or just simply your voice, depending on how well trained your dog is.

Step 2: Now, hold down on your dog's back firmly. It will NOT hurt him. Anyway, hold down until he sits.
It may take a few times, and your dog may not like it. Stubborn, large, unruly dogs cannot do this, but if trained well enough, possibly they can.

 Step 3: Your dog has sat, so give him a treat and praise him by petting or saying "Good Boy!"

A good example for a treat is a dog bone, a bit of dog food in the palm of your hand,

or even a leftover biscuit or hot dog! After about 10 times of doing this, in about 2 weeks or so, your dog 

will have learned how to sit.