right now i'm training Maya to Sit and i also want to do down, shake and heel to begin with. my question is do i just do them one at a time or can i work on more than one at a time?

she pretty much got sit down and will shake sometimes on command.

thanks

I personally would do one at a time. You may overwhelm her doing multiple things at once. At least wait a day or two between each one, so she has adequate time to learn each one.

I agree with Kelly. Once a command is mastered, a new one can be added. Don't forget to do the old commands and the new one at the same time so the old ones aren't forgotten

Definitely don't do them all at once. I made that mistake at first. I would make him sit, then paw, then lay down, and after doing that a few times, it didn't matter which one I said he would just randomly do one or two at once and look very confused. He still confuses them a little bit sometimes but gets all the tricks I taught him one by one a lot better. But like the last poster said, once she gets sit, keep using it, and same with the others. I always do one trick he knows, then a new one and thent he treat. It seems to work pretty well.

I guess I'm the weird one here. I sat down with Rogue at 10 weeks for about 20 minutes teaching her sit, down, stay, shake, and spin and after those 20 minutes she had them all down and never did the command at random. I guess it depends on the dog though. Koda worked better with one at a time, but I think that was mostly because he didn't feel like dealing with me and wanted to just sleep, haha. Rogue was a lot more food motivated and eager to please as a pup than Koda.

thanks for the replies. maya will lift her paws sometimes when i tell her to sit, so i think i will just do one trick at a time