dog breed beagle

hi! i’m melanie mcleroy with taurus trainingfor expert village and it’s the time to talk about beagles. and finally, we need toteach this beagle how to stay. now, bailey has been playing with the hedgehog prettyheavily for the past couple of minutes. so, it’s going to be a little bit more difficultfor me to get him to stay now than usual. so, i’m going to go back to my fall backposition and let him know i have got some food. he’s offering behaviors beautifully.now, a lot of people here would use the word stay, we don’t use the word stay at taurus.the stay is inherent… up, down, good, a lot of things happened there, but i need tostop and explain. first of all, we think that the stay is inherent in the command, whenyou give your dog a command, that’s what

they should do until you say otherwise. littlebailey is having some trouble here, so i need to go ahead and reinforce him for stayingdown and he’s cheating just a little bit. so, i’m going to help him. so, there i wasin the middle of the sentence, and he broke the down, i said en… which is a no rewardmarker, which means he did the wrong thing and then i encouraged him to get back down.he wasn’t going down without food as a lure though, so i have to go back to using foodas a lure, be patient, because this little dog will be responding to hand signals andthen to a verbal before you know it. now, bailey is doing a pretty darn good job here,staying down, so i’m going to reinforce him for gradually longer intervals of timeof staying. he’s also little distracted

by something in the environment. i will slowlyintroduce him to distractions even just moving him a bit, good, stay down, now there he up,down, there he wanted to get up and he caught himself, which is excellent that’s why imarked that. so, even just standing up, taking a step, these things can be really distractingto these little beagle puppies. but, he’s doing an excellent job, good so this littlebeagle puppy is learning to stay quite well. i want to release him before he decides toget up on his own. okay, okay, let’s go, so i sure was lucky there because it lookslike i was releasing him when he decided he wanted to get up anyway. so, be patient withyour beagle. it’s kind of hard for them to learn how to stay in one place. they’relittle wiggly pups most of the time especially

when they’re young, but if you’re patient,you’ll have a successful down stay before you know it.