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Sooo...Bones is getting the hang of wait quite well. She'll wait (without me asking) while I open the door to enter and exit, when I put her food down, when I take the baby gate down. Our release word is okay.
We haven't touched stay yet, but is this something that is needed? Will she understand a difference between wait (as in, be patient and whatever you want will come to you) and stay (as in, keep your butt glued to the ground indefinitely)? Or could I just continue to use wait and just begin to broaden its uses? Do any of you use both cues for different situations? And if I do teach her stay, should I use a different release for the different cue?
One more thing: We've been working on 'go to your place.' I work in a barn, and eventually, I'd like to be able to give the cue from anywhere in the barn and have her run to her bed and lie down, mostly for safety reasons. Right now, she'll run to her bed and lie down, then I click and treat. But it occurred to me today -should I be incorporating a release? Like, she runs to her bed, I give her the release word, then click and treat?
We haven't touched stay yet, but is this something that is needed? Will she understand a difference between wait (as in, be patient and whatever you want will come to you) and stay (as in, keep your butt glued to the ground indefinitely)? Or could I just continue to use wait and just begin to broaden its uses? Do any of you use both cues for different situations? And if I do teach her stay, should I use a different release for the different cue?
One more thing: We've been working on 'go to your place.' I work in a barn, and eventually, I'd like to be able to give the cue from anywhere in the barn and have her run to her bed and lie down, mostly for safety reasons. Right now, she'll run to her bed and lie down, then I click and treat. But it occurred to me today -should I be incorporating a release? Like, she runs to her bed, I give her the release word, then click and treat?