🐕 Day 2 · Sit
Luring the sit, fading the lure, and beginning the word-cue pairing. By the end of Day 1, your dog should have been following an empty hand arc into a sit, with you saying "sit" one second before the hand motion.
Today: you shrink the hand signal and add the first unit of duration. Most sit failures in real-world contexts aren't about the position — they're about the dog bouncing out immediately. Duration is the missing piece.
If your dog pops up every time before 2 seconds, don't increase the duration yet — just mark at 1 second and work that consistently for a whole session. Duration is built by rewarding what you have, not by demanding what you don't. Marking at 0.5 seconds consistently is more valuable than trying for 2 seconds and rewarding a jump. Start where you can succeed, not where you want to be.
The classic training error with sit is skipping to "sit by the door when guests arrive" before building any duration. your dog hasn't been asked to hold a sit for more than a fraction of a second — and now they're being asked to sit and hold still in the highest-arousal context in their day. Of course it falls apart.
The correct progression is: duration first, in a calm environment, until your dog holds the position easily for 5–10 seconds before the treat arrives. Then you can start adding distractions. You're laying that groundwork right now — building the neural pattern of "sit means hold" rather than "sit means plant hips briefly then pop up." This session is the foundation of a sit that works in the real world.
5–10 minutes. Pick up where yesterday left off.
Two days in a row. That's the whole game — repetition without gap. The behavior is starting to stick.
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