Dog Health Questions: How do you know when your dog training has worked?

Usually when the front door is open my dog Duke will go outside in the front yard. But this morning the screen door was shut and I walked up to the door and Duke just sat right by the door.

It made me happy because usually before I let them in the backyard i tell them to sit at the door before opening then I open the door and let them out. I have been doing this or my bedroom door too.

i was proud of him!
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thats him!

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I think You know the training has worked ~~~ when you command them to do something
and they Obey... after a while.. it just becomes habit, and you don't even have to
say anything.. they just do it.. that is success....

I have found when you have a screen door involved you gotta be careful... if they
are in a hurry to get out. they will break a glass door, or rip out the screen in a
screen door..
It sounds like the sitting technique is working,, now on to the leash.. keep a tight
rein on him.. no slack.. until he learns his manners.. he is not to go out in front of
you.. you are the master.. you lead the pack.. good luck... take care

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• Sounds like it has. Just keep up the reinforcement and he will retain it.


• Sometimes, it's just what you described! They just suddenly seemed to exhibit the behavior that you wanted instead of the behavior that you anticipated. That is a GOOD DAY, as you are usually surprised when a dog STOPS doing something you really need him to stop doing without a command. That is a day that you do a victory dance! Congratulations!
  
  But usually, it's that your dog will consistently attend to you and respond to commands regardless of environment and circumstances, also called 'proofing'; or consistently fails to exhibit a behavior you sought to eliminate with no commands needed.


• if it wants to do more training!!!!!!


• When Chaos does a command I tell him to do, on the spot, with distractions. No saying the command more than once and no luring with treats/toys.Congrats on the training, glad everything is going well. Cute dog, btw.


• Just keep reinforcing the behavior with positive things like treats and praise. Sounds like he has learned.


• When this happens, it is called a default behavior and is the result of the dog being rewarded each time for doing the behavior. In this case, the reward is going through the door. It takes many repetitions to get a default behavior. Ussually the behavior is trained without the cue first in specific situations, such as going through a door, greeting people at the door, or when you are eating. Trainers generalize the behavior to other locations, then add the cue so the dog knows what the behavior is called. Once the dog knows that, then they drop it again in that situation and wait for it to get the behavior as a default. Of course the reward each time is going through the door.
  
  Just keep at your loose leash walking in low distrations areas and slowly increase distractions levels and he'll get that too! Which method are you using? I use the penalty yards approach by Sue Ailsby. http://www.dragonflyllama.com/%20DOGS/Levels/LevelBehaviours/TL15Leash.html
  
  If you want to learn more about training behavior, check out "Don't Shoot the Dog" by Karen Pryor.
  It shows the 8 possible ways to train or change a behavior. Works for all animals including humans!


• When they repeat the same behavior at least a dozen times without being told.
  
  Bingo.