[Jamie & Odin]

I find that the more opportunity I have for praise, the better. If the dog is being obnoxious, rather than saying "no, get down, knock it off, etc. etc. I just say "sit" and he does, and gets praised, then we re-direct. I did teach one "negative" command, "uh huh". I can say "uh huh" so quitely, only the dog can hear, and whatever he is thinking about doing, he doesn't. The way I did this was to put the dog in a sit/stay, show him a treat, and when he broke his sit say "uh huh" and the treat goes away. Took a very short time.