Leave it, a well misplaced cue in a lot of households, and for you it's going to be different you'll be learning how to effectively use the leave it cue with your dog.
Personally I use, "leave" on its own, you still can say "Leave It" if you don't feel correct using "leave".
So to train effectively with leave and the best way is to make sure you put every effort into the lead-up as you possibly can, by conditioning your dog for this.
Conditioning for this is basically using NILIF to its maximum potential, and as you know NILIF is a powerful tool to make you and your dogs lives much easier.
So because you've been conditioning your dog using NILIF you will already have partly conditioned your dog for an effective leave.
The conditioning for leave is all about having your dog understand it doesn't get everything it wants as outlined in NILIF.
To get started with this have your reward at hand, allow your dog to believe you are going to give him his reward but wait until your dog gives up trying to get the reward then immediately reward an praise.
Do this without any verbal interaction and repeat a few times, this is purely for conditioning for an effective leave, although this should always be practiced with your dog as it positions you as the decision maker i.
e.
pack leader.
This is a great warm-up to learning your dog to leave and for the first few times it's always good to warm up.
Now that you have practiced with a conditioning task with your dog for Leave you want to start practicing leave with your dog.
What you will be doing is using your dogs reward again, this time you want to entice your dog to want his reward.
Sternly ask your dog to leave, while moving the reward away from your dog.
Hopefully your dog should sit, but if he doesn't ask him to sit.
Now start to bring your dogs reward towards him, pulling away and asking him to leave if he tries to get it.
You should repeat this action until you are able to place his reward in front of him without him trying to get it.
By now your dog will have a strong understanding of what leave means, and all it takes is a little more practice to take it to perfection.
You're certainly using the best methods for training your dog to leave, that's for sure.
You must know that usually "stay" or "wait" can end up taking place of the word leave in most situations you would usually use it, try not to let this happen because it's important your dog knows what leave is too.
Personally I use, "leave" on its own, you still can say "Leave It" if you don't feel correct using "leave".
So to train effectively with leave and the best way is to make sure you put every effort into the lead-up as you possibly can, by conditioning your dog for this.
Conditioning for this is basically using NILIF to its maximum potential, and as you know NILIF is a powerful tool to make you and your dogs lives much easier.
So because you've been conditioning your dog using NILIF you will already have partly conditioned your dog for an effective leave.
The conditioning for leave is all about having your dog understand it doesn't get everything it wants as outlined in NILIF.
To get started with this have your reward at hand, allow your dog to believe you are going to give him his reward but wait until your dog gives up trying to get the reward then immediately reward an praise.
Do this without any verbal interaction and repeat a few times, this is purely for conditioning for an effective leave, although this should always be practiced with your dog as it positions you as the decision maker i.
e.
pack leader.
This is a great warm-up to learning your dog to leave and for the first few times it's always good to warm up.
Now that you have practiced with a conditioning task with your dog for Leave you want to start practicing leave with your dog.
What you will be doing is using your dogs reward again, this time you want to entice your dog to want his reward.
Sternly ask your dog to leave, while moving the reward away from your dog.
Hopefully your dog should sit, but if he doesn't ask him to sit.
Now start to bring your dogs reward towards him, pulling away and asking him to leave if he tries to get it.
You should repeat this action until you are able to place his reward in front of him without him trying to get it.
By now your dog will have a strong understanding of what leave means, and all it takes is a little more practice to take it to perfection.
You're certainly using the best methods for training your dog to leave, that's for sure.
You must know that usually "stay" or "wait" can end up taking place of the word leave in most situations you would usually use it, try not to let this happen because it's important your dog knows what leave is too.