I think I mentioned that, a dog will mimic what he sees and hears, if you all run around shouting he will copy you. I quoted you earlier about recall advice btw.
I agree I think the issue with us is me , whoda thunk it What I mean is , a combination of being asian, muslim, old school etc I don't see dogs as human beings. It's a dog
I agree with that though. Don't spoil them, it's a dog not a baby and making them understand their place early on will make them a well rounded individual.
Cats and dogs are both part of the family as I see it. They're also always bottom of the pecking order just as my son always makes sure with his gorgeous golden retriever with my 8 weekold grandson. I'm a big animal lover and tend to spoil my pets when I have them. You gotta always know that pets come and go though. Many people don't do that which makes the grieving that much worse when they go.
Good training tip to stop dogs Pulling on their lead is to stop and stand still when they do it. And back it up with a command ‘heel’ is the obvious one. If they pull again, you just keep repeating it. Eventually they learn that pulling doesn’t get them anywhere so they stop. Takes time though and TONS of patience. But it works
Yeah I tried this for the first month, one day it took me 4 hours to walk about half a mile. What I have started doing is holding the lead in my left hand, having the lead across my body and the dog by my right hand side. Have a load of treats and when he trots along side me feeding him with my right hand. Makes him think that my right hand is like a treat dispenser where he only gets something if he is walking next to me and not legging it off ahead or trying to jump up at other people walking past. This has worked pretty well and he is slowly learning to just walk next to me.
Go to a big field, start walking and every 5-10 yards change direction, the dog will think wtf? a few times. At some point he'll come to a natural heel and look at you to try and figure you out at this point hit him with a treat and keep going giving him a treat at various points when he's paying attention.
I'll give this a go tonight. As I said his biggest thing is that when he is outside the house he just wants to run, so open fields are like crack to him. But he really needs to learn as at 8 months, whilst he is definitely better he is still not great on the lead. I can control him when he is pulling on the lead but I drop him round my mums when I am at work and as he is getting older and close to fully grown she finds him too strong on the lead and struggles with taking him out during the day.
Make sure he's hungry and you have a treat he really likes. I had someone who used to come to my lessons and would feed the dog before they came and he'd then ignore the owner waving treats in his face. Stupid human.
A little tip I learnt was not to do the training straight away when outside with a dog as you describe, as in wants to run Basically tire him a bit because everything will be more interesting than you in the first instance The best way was to do the training at home in the back garden. So turn the dog by going in front and guiding with your leg Also learnt that the more you pull a dog back the more it will pull. It's instinct. The lead needs to be slack.
Cheers for the advice, I will give them all a go later on today and in the future. I met another guy with the same breed walking a little while ago and my dog was going nuts and he said that his, who was being perfectly behaved, was identical up til about 18 months old. He said you just have to keep instilling the commands and the way to behave and one day it is like a switch just goes off in his head and he chills out. My dog knows what he is supposed to do, he will do it instantly as soon as you offer him some form of reward for doing it, the little **** just won't listen unless you are shoving food at him
The food has to be instant and everytime to start with and then it's slowly taken away. Clicker training is also a fav of mine I find it works well with Springers.
He's a Viszla, and I do give him food as soon as he does what I want, he has learnt all the basics but will only do it consistently if he sees I have a treat for him. Haven't tried the clicker thing, will invest in one and give it a go.
Ah right, no idea where I got Springer from. Solid working dog though fairly clever should be easy enough to train.
