I took a video of door training and a few other things. So far only door training is uploaded. Thanks, Kate:happy-houndz.blogspot.com. She takes a lot of nice videos of training her dogs.
I also have one of Dottie tricks and a short one of Gustav tricks. I'm still working on uploading those.
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I LOVED THE VIDEO! I never thought to do this! YAY a new idea for door training thanks to YOU.
ReplyDeleteGiven how chilled they are...I am wondering where you hid their horns?
I love Dottie's ears!
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that when she broke the stay, she didn't rush up to the door or anything. She was just casual about it. Just a little happy wag and sweet eyes for you!
Gustav is solid...firmly planted! I LOVE THAT he leaned away to make room for Dottie but kept planted in the same spot. Nice. I need to show my REBELS this video!
okay last comment...Daizy breaks stays when there's motion involved and someone else's turn to have fun. What I do sometimes is I'll walk right by Daizy, ignore her and give the rest of them a motherload of treats for the stay. Sometimes seeing the others get a load of treats is enough incentive to hold her position :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, it took me a while to decide on a good door procedure. I tried a baby gate over by the bedrooms, but they hated that because they couldn't see what was going on and it made them frightened. For Dottie, I tried "go get your toy" but it seemed to rev her up, not calm her down. For a while, I had my friends let themselves in while I just threw gobs of treats in the kitchen and body blocked them until they seemed calm enough to greet. Now I'm trying the stay so someday I can actually answer the door. I also like the kitchen location because they can see, but there's an obvious barrier: the doorway. Also the couch is right across from the door, so I can let someone in, have them sit down, then allow the dogs to come over in a calmer way.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I do give Gustav lots of treats right in front of Dottie, then give herself a chance to redeem herself by re-assuming the stay. I noticed in this video I was a little too Dottie-centric and didn't give Gustav his due for being such a rock. Sometimes he holds that stay for a while after he's released, it always makes me laugh to see him just sitting in the kitchen like he got lost or something.
It's true, my dogs are really pretty great at home. I tell people they're (somewhat) well trained, just a little crazy. I feel lucky that I only have to suit up for major training when I leave the house. Dottie really doesn't like dogs, and Gustav really doesn't like dogs or strangers. Lucky for me they really like each other and me and Justin. I feel fortunate I don't have to deal with resource guarding, housetraining problems, owner-directed aggression, compulsive behavior, physical health issues, or dog fights in the house. Count my blessings, I guess!
definitely!
ReplyDeleteI think my guys are so much fun and when fosters come through my door, that's when I really notice how lucky I am too.
Keegan and Taiki are social butterflies which is nice but my two beagles for some reason were target for lab or pitbull mixes and have been attacked (one black lab jumped it's fence to get at Daizy who was a puppy.
George was awesome until recently where he had a string of adolescent intact males lunge at him and a couple locked on and I had to pull them off so right now, he really isn't interested in meeting other dogs. I totally respect that. But I live in what I call the Off leash intact adolescent male bully capital of Canada. People don't care if I say...call your dog...or put him on leash. Which is really frustrating to me.
So...I just need another action plan to help with the situations where I can see the dog running for us. I've tried throwing treats at them, saying 'stop" or Go or sit...and they still manage to run around me and get to George. I too think George is more than happy in our own little family and putting undo stress into making him something he's not ...well I wouldn't like it if someone did that to me. I am who I am. I have social skills to pay the bills and that's all that I ask of them.