obeying commands faster?

[kennajo]

Rocky obeys the commands given to him but in slow motion. How can I get him to drop faster on"sit" and "down?" I see other dogs just drop really quickly but Rocky is like "ok if I have too"

[Clyde]

Motivation is defininately the best way to speed up a dog. Get your dogs favourite treat or toy and practice one exercise (sit or down don't mix them up yet). Say sit and reward for each sit preferably with a marker word or click then reward in the most exciting way possible (don't just hand him a treat). My one dogs loves to chase food so I would give his marker release and then toss the food so he can chase it. Your dog should get more and more excited and into the game and will be eagerly awaiting your next command. This in its self should speed him up. The quicker he sits the quicker he gets the reward.

Once my dogs get good at that I start to only reward for quick sits. So if I say sit and my dog is slow or tries to step back then sit I will say "nope" and he will have to start over. This should make him a bit frustrated and quicker next time you give your command. You just have to make sure you have some way to communicate before he gets into the sit that he did something not right. If you say "nope" and he already had his butt to the floor your timing was bad.

Every dog is different and this will depend on the motivation your dog has for the reward. If the motivation is to low some dogs won't get frustrated and will just give up and stop.

Let me know if you think this will work with your dog.

[kiya]

You have to increase your level of excitement. If your upbeat full of energy it should transfer to pup. I have the same kind of problem with Lakota. As soon as I start acting like an idiot she gets quicker.

[Emoore]

Engagement, motivation, and energy. It's all about the engagement, motivation, and energy.

[Castlemaid]

How old is your pup? How do you train? How do you reward?

[kennajo]

Castlemaid-I train with positive reward(treat) he is 1 yr old and I start with holding the treat close to his nose and had him follow where I wanted him to go. Up and back for sit,down between front paws for down. He is really ball crazy and does respond faster if I have the ball but this isn't always convenient

Kiya & Clyde I will work on increasing the excitment and idiocy

[Castlemaid]

Sounds good! Slow response can be a sign of stress, but doesn't sound like you make the training stressful. As others have said, up you energy, he should follow suit.

[onyx'girl]

Build drive thru the ball. Tug with him out him get him going and give a command. As soon as he does it, reward. You can get really fast motions with drive building/capping, but it won't be necessarily precise positioning.

[kennajo]

it just takes us too long to reset if I use the ball as reward...thats why I haven't so far. Drive building capping? Explain please? As far as tugging he's not really into it.

[onyx'girl]

Leerburg On Demand | Q and A with Michael Ellis on Playing Tug
Leerburg On Demand | Michael Ellis - Engagement Training with His Dog Pi
These two free clips may help explain.
Here is a link to many more, this is page three:

http://leerburg.com/flix/category.ph...ryid=10&page=3
Building drive is where you get the dog excited for something they want...get pup ramped up. Backtying is a way to do it, or just tease up with a tug or ball.
Capping it is asking for a behavior or give a command. Then you release the pup to the reward after they do it. I prefer to use a reward where I'm a part of it.
So tug is the best, because once its dead the game is over. Pup can't play tug by himself. Pup will come back to you for more game, because you are the one that controls it. Fetch is another way to team play, but the pup needs to bring it back or their is no game....once again you are the one that controls it.