10/29/2025
Does your dog sit every time you tell them? 🤔
If they don’t, you’re probably missing a back up plan. 📝 The problem is, most people (and many trainers) will only use food to teach sit. 🥓 But if the dog only sits when you have food, it’s not obedience it’s bribery 🤯
The problem is, when a dog learns only with treats it’s not even them being stubborn, it’s just the context they were taught: “when I have a piece of food and say sit, you put your butt down”. No food = no sit. ❌ Your dog genuinely doesn’t understand what sit means outside that context.
Leash pressure bridges that gap and creates a context you can consistently replicate. Even when they’re off leash, as long as they have a collar on you can apply upward pressure and still have control. Then if you say sit and they don’t, you lift up on the leash and voila, they put their butt down. Now you can make them sit everytime, the FIRST time you ask them. 🤩
