Level we ( recommend around inappropriate later to repubic content door 200 times the kitchen and you think he has that concept of the SIT command down Then you take him your garage and say SIT and he looks at you like you are the the talking Swahili. He acts like you have two heads and he has never heard the word SIT before. A better example is when the dog has always been given the SIT command when you are standing front of him the kitchen. Simply turning your back and saying SIT results a blank stair, or kneeling down or sitting on the floor and saying SIT gets no results. That is because the dog does not understand the concept of SIT. He doesn't know what you are asking him to do. Oh you think he knows the word SIT but what he really knows is that when he sees the picture of you standing front of him the kitchen he should SIT. when you a dog do this you need to know that your dog has not yet grasped the concept of the SIT command. Marker training is going to teach you how to communicate with your dog they grasp the concepts of the commands you wish to train them and its going to do this is a way the dog enjoys. Marker training turns a dog into what we call Active Dog vs. a Reactive Dog. This means the system creates a dog that actively tries to problem solve. These dogs try to engage their handlers by trying to do things that make their handlers play with them, give them a food or toy reward or ask them to do something that lead to these two things. Active dogs try to make things happen. They know they can do things that cause their owner to engage them. essence they themselves become engaged with their handlers by bouncing around and trying to do things that result their handler giving them a reward. As I have said earlier this article, trainers need to learn how to teach engagement to their dog. new trainers simply think they have the wrong dog and their dogs won't act like this. These people are wrong. They simply need to learn how to provide environment that makes the dog want to engage the handler. This is compared to a reactive dog that waits to be shown what the handler wants. Reactive dog are afraid to try new things for fear they be corrected for making mistakes. Every time you take your dog out you are teaching the dog something. You not know what it is but our dogs are constantly watching and evaluating us. active dog is trying to figure out how to interact with you a way that benefit him. A reactive dog is trying not to step on land mines that result his getting a correction. Marker training is the perfect method to produce active dog. We can use a ball reward to demonstrate the difference between active and reactive dogs. active dog go out on the training field and engage his owner. He focus on the owner and offer behaviors that he thinks cause his owner to produce the ball. This is a dog that bounces around and willingly gives eye contact, lays down, sits up, goes into the heel position without being asked to do any of those things. He does this until the owner produces the ball and asks him to d something he has been trained to do. A reactive dog is a dog that goes to the training field and waits for the owner to ask him to do something. He doesn't offer any behaviors. He perform a behavior and accept the ball as a reward but he isn't going to try and second guess what his owner wants him to do. other words, he reacts to what the handler asks. Reactive dogs have learned that if they try and figure out what their handlers want and they make a mistake they get corrected. they quit trying. They back off and take the safe approach which is wait until he tells me what he wants because I 't need another correction. The first step training markers is to study the system. Know where you are going and understand the the details of how your going to get there. other words study the details of