At the end of every episode of Family Ties and other UBU productions, Gary Goldberg’s black lab was flashed along with the famous phrase, “Sit Ubu, Sit!.” Pet owners want their dogs to be like Ubu. Mikkel Becker shares a mat training method to help get the sit behavior going. Her video includes comments from Gary Landsberg, DVM.
Source: Firstline, November 14, 2017.
What we want to do is reward interest in (the mat). It may just be starting to move toward it. Ideally, I want to get (the dog) down,” Becker says.