So many of us are spending lots of time to train our small baby dog ,if you're the type of person that likes to eliminate chores like this where possible.I do suggest you can take your time to follow me. I have a small puppy named Rose and she's only 6 months old, so she's still working on her fundamentals,many of you out there have small dogs ,and I know I regularly receive enquires as to what we need to do differently with small dogs as opposed to larger Dogs. We're gonna find out with Rose today.We'll definitely need to work on come win called when training virtually ,you'll find that there are more responsive, the closer you are to the dog now. I like to call this the training bubble, the distance between your eyes and their eyes,so one of the first things you'll notice about working with a smaller dog is that they're small, so the distance between your eyes is quite significant ,when you're close to your dog during training. It's a lot easier to keep their attention on you, and if you try to get them to listen to you while you're farther away that training bubble pops ,so we have to nourish it and build it slowly,so since smaller dogs are closer to the floor, well ideally that means you should be closer to the floor.

In the beginning parts of training a dog you know how to sit .I mean we're practically nose-to-nose right here, so let me just demonstrate my point, when I ask Rose to sit when the distance between our eyes is greater.She's looking at me and she's like what are you talking about. For example, Rose sit .If I'm over here and I say sit, she pops right into it ,but you could definitely see she was a little bit confused there when I asked her to sit from a distance ,the idea here is to see if we can extend the training bubble in order to get Rose focus on something, basic likes it from a farther distance,there are some of us who might get more difficult to get close to the ground, and when training a dog and if that's the case, try using a great treat at really prioritize teaching look at me to strengthen that training bubble ,and see if you really get look at me ,solid like this then that will have a lot of positive effects on your training level ,in terms of making it bigger. 

All puppies have to learn how to reliably, come to us when we call them, most dogs don't generalize this skill from new place to new place ,or from circumstance to circumstance ,and when you're training your dog to come to you. Your training bubble is really important ,we expect our dogs to come to us from across the house or across a big field without extensive training ,and that's not realistic for most dogs, that's why you really need to focus on training your dog to come when called in a small area like this. At first there's not a lot of distractions to throw them off and you can really focus on teaching them the concept .Not everyone is comfortable with it, but if you aren't get real low to the ground like that when those big human eyes are right there,and use tiny treats liberally and an upbeat fun tone to direct them and motivate them to come to you as you call them now, if your dog is a little bitey or you're not totally comfortable with your dog use discretion here. Of course let's see if we can get her to come from a little bit farther away, something like come here Rose Rose come here. She's ignoring me just thinking about it, but watch I have a hunch if I get real in the ground right now ,she's gonna come running to me .Rose come here come here right now .Rose is walking around over there, she's now coming to me when I call her as quickly as I'd like ,so what do you do when your dog actually doesn't come to you first.

We're gonna shrink our training bubble and try and provide some additional motivation.I'm gonna let her know I've got that treat ,but I'm not gonna give treat for not listening to me right. I'm just gonna have her walk like this.They really learn to go through the motions of actually walking towards you when you call them, and remember if you got a puppy like this, you need to make sure that you have treats located all over the place out of your dog's reach ,that keep well at room temperature so that you can jump into these spontaneous training sessions as needed, sometimes dogs are so excited or maybe you're using treats that, your dog isn't too enthused about what do you do in that situation , there's no harm in picking them up and bringing them back to where you called them from well that doesn't really teach them to come to you, it still shows them that look. 

I'm still going to enforce the rules you can't ignore me ,but training sessions like this aren't where you teach your dog to reliably, come to you these sessions in the beginning are just focused on teaching your dog the general concept ,it can take many months to get your dog to come to you ,and much more distracting situations start calling them when you're cooking dinner or watching TV on the internet or whatever ,and really catch them off guard that will prepare them for more realistic situations when you need them to come to you ,even when they don't want to come to you, and as we know the biggest mistake by new puppy parents too much freedom too early ,so always make sure that your dog is on collar, especially when you're teaching them to come to you whether you're inside or outside, the reason is if they get away with routinely disregarding your request to come to you, it's gonna set your training back significantly, if this has already happened with you that's okay just take a step back understand,it's gonna take a little bit more work since the habit is well-established of not listening to you, but it's never too late to start over and commit to being consistent from now on.

So what about teaching your dog to lie down for example, believe it or not ,this is one of a handful of behaviors that it's a little bit different when you're teaching a smaller dog ,at least for most smaller dogs normally what we do with larger dogs is we try and lure them straight down, and many larger dogs will follow that right into a down ,but smaller dogs not so much， this has more to do with their Anatomy than it does with intelligence. I mean it just is more awkward to lure a smaller dog into a doubt, this requires you as a trainer to get a little bit more creative with your lure, maybe you might want to go from size look at that right there ,see how I went to the side. I've worked with many small dogs where this can be a two-week process so she's doing really well look at that right there ,and I don't know if you noticed that was a little bit different other than coming out like this. I actually went in towards her chest ,see how she's going backwards and then through the legs, it's almost like they fall into the down right there, I will always voice out good job and click thumbs up for Rose. In fact，she did a great job and she's handsome right make sure.  I always so proud of my small puppy Rose.