Teaching your puppy to stay is obviously extremely important. The Stay command is introduced in Week #2. Intially, the dogs are required to Stay while sitting at relatively far distances from each other. The dogs below are in the Stay command with no other dogs nearby. Subsequently, starting in Week #3, all dogs will be required to Stay at relatively close distances to other dogs as shown in the last photo below.

Yorkshire terrier being commanded to Stay

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Beginning in Week #3, all puppies are required to comply to Sit-Stay
while other dogs are relatively close as shown in the above photo..