The Place Command For Dummies—Get The Most Out Of Your Dog Training
Does your dog go crazy when people come over? Do they beg when you’re eating? Or maybe they are always getting into stuff or stealing socks out of the hamper or chewing your furniture?
These are all reasons why people love using the place command. But experience has taught us that place doesn’t really “fix” these problems on its own. So why do we really love it? And why do we tell people to do it? Who benefits from it? How do you use the place command to help your dog get better at relaxing and be less of a menace? What are the mistakes that everybody is making with this trendy command? Well, we are going to tell you how to turn your dog into the best version of themselves leveraging… you guessed it, place.
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Minute-by-Minute Breakdown
- 00:00 – Introduces the Place command and asks why it’s popular and what it should accomplish.
- 01:00 – Host promises honest, full-spectrum dog training advice, including puppy training.
- 02:00 – Defines Place as telling a dog to lie on a specific spot, like an elevated cot or any bed.
- 03:00 – Place helps dogs learn to settle, be patient, and develop coping skills.
- 04:00 – Leaving dogs on Place for longer periods teaches sustained calmness; even ten minutes helps.
- 06:00 – Using Place helps owners set expectations, creating a more balanced and manageable relationship.
- 08:00 – Clients find Place useful because it helps dogs be well behaved and under control.
- 10:00 – Place is not a substitute for training; anxious dogs need behavior modification too.
- 12:00 – Place cannot replace correcting and eliminating undesirable behaviors like jumping or aggression.
- 14:00 – Until underlying behaviors are corrected, Place will be harder and less effective, such as at the door.
- 16:00 – After correcting behaviors, using Place provides the best of both worlds for management.
- 18:00 – Place develops valuable skills: calming, settling, and tuning out environmental stimuli.
- 20:00 – Don’t mistake stimulation for training; keeping dogs constantly busy perpetuates problem behaviors.
- 22:00 – Require dogs to lay down on Place; standing and wiggling increases arousal and defeats the purpose.
- 24:00 – E‑collars can give a low reminder tap to help maintain settled behavior on Place.
- 30:00 – Immediate compliance to a correction doesn’t equal success; true success is the dog stopping the unwanted behavior.