Excellent advice above. I've trained myself to not think of "Sit" (or other commands) as one skill, instead I see it as a group of skills, where "sit-at-home","sit-in-well-known-street","sit-in-crazy-distracting-harbour" is different skills and the level of competence in each needs to be trained separately, sometimes it's almost like starting all over again. No idea if this represents the dogs mental model, but it keeps my own expectations lower (and therefore frustration) and reminds me to actually do training in different settings.
Dog follows sit command inside but not outside, why?
My dog knows how to sit on command. When we are in the house she sits when I tell her to, but when we are outside she doesn't. I'll tell her to sit and she just stands there looking at me like a deer in headlights. Since she's a small miniature pinscher I've even tried crouching down and telling her to sit. I don't know if that's the correct thing to do but I feel like a giant towering over her. What should I be doing? How can I get her to listen to my command when we're outside?
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