Today we’re talking some basic dog training, specifically about the command leave it. Leave it is a very good command, it comes in very handy because a lot of owners complain about their dog digging through the trash, the laundry basket, the garden, the yard, the toys and that includes the adult toys, the remote, cell phones, etc, etc.

I just use an old empty juice bootle as my forbidden object. You can use any variety of objects with this but the important part is that this is your forbidden object, so in my mind this is something that my dog (Bear) should never ever ever have as a toy.

Now I’m going to present the forbidden object. “Leave it”, “very good boy”, so what I’m actually trying to do is train or program the head turn (when the dog turns the head away from forbidden the forbidden object), I’ll show you this one more time. You will notice that he is touching it with his nose, “leave it, good boy, very very very good.

The more you practice this the better it’s going to work. This is very important because when you’re out on a walk, you could at any encounter a food item that’s discarded in gutter, you don’t know where that food came from, the dog could get any number of things as well as sick, worms, any other number of things.

The other thing that leave it is great for, is that when cars leak radiator fluid, is smells like sweet candy to a dog, and if they lap it up, it’s a slow miserable death so that’s why leave it is so important. So that’s ‘leave it’ a very important and useful command.