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When I first got Tibbe, this is how we stated training "Come". I would just sit with him right beside me or in my lap and say "Come" and treat him instantly. Over and over. He quickly learned that the word "come" meant an immediate treat. After a couple of weeks of that, I would move a couple of feet way from him and say come and hold out the treat and he would have to come to me to get it. I began to praise him when he got to me as I gave him his treat. I moved father and farther away but each time he would come to get his treat - however far he had to come to get what he considered his treat and praise. After all, "Come" meant treat and he wanted his "paycheck" and he came to enjoy the high, squeak-voiced praise, too. I'd call him from the other room and he'd come running all the way to get his treat and praise.

In time we moved the whole thing outside and I would sit on the porch with him beside me/in lap and say "come" and treat/praise him immediately and eventually moved farther away, etc., just as above but this time, outside. So he learned that he had to travel a ways to get the treat and praise that "come" always meant, whether inside or outside.

After a few months of this training, begin to not treat every single time but always praise, so that the dog begins to accept real, heartfelt praise as a happy reward, which many dogs begin to enjoy and appreciate just as much as a treat once they truly value it from you. They see it as a badge of honor from the person they love the most.