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#98 This is a place and this is a place and this is a place
Help your dog generalize by training place on as many different objects and in as many locations as possible.
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When you're training the place cue—which means go to your bed or go to whatever object I point at, and stay there until I tell you to go free—there are two things you need to keep in mind.
First, dogs don't generalize well, so make sure you use four to five different objects as a place so that they start to understand place is a cue, and not just their dog bed. If the only time you train place is on their dog bed, and you ever go to your parents’ house or a friend's house and want your dog to place but you didn't bring the bed, you won't be able to do it. So train on four to five different objects to help your dog generalize the place cue.
And then the second thing that you want to do is, when you're training at home, train place in different rooms. If the only place you train place is in the living room, what happens in the living room stays in the living room. And if you go into the dining room and you ask your dog to place, he's probably not going to know what it means, because he assumes place is that dog bed in the living room.
So train in different locations and different rooms. Find objects—maybe benches or something like that when you're walking—and do a quick place. Help your dog generalize and help your dog understand that place means place, no matter where they are and no matter what the object is.