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quick dog training questions - for the holidays
dirty ethel rackham posted a topic in The Chat Board
My sis is allowing me to bring my dog to Thanksgiving this year as we don't have anyone who can watch him right now. But, she lives on a farm and her animals are usually not allowed in the house. However, since one of their 2 beloved labs was killed 2 months ago, she has relented and allows her lonely lab in the house, but only if he stays on his "pillow." So, my labradoodle is used to the run of the house, so we are working on "go to spot". He does so willingly as long as we have treats. However, if I move away, his "stay" doesn't always stay. He loves people and would follow them any -
We're clicker training our 12 week old puppy, and for the most part it's going well. The major problem we're having is that when we play with her she jumps and nips. Those little teeth are sharp and she's ripped jeans and shirts. My son was playing with her tonight and she really got him on the bare leg. I know it's playful, not aggressive, but I really want to nip this <ha ha> in the bud. She's only started doing this in the last week or so. We are doing the standard-- turning our back (which is how she ruined my shirt) and ignoring her, leaning into her instead of stepping a
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This is definitely a post for dog owners/experts. Thoughts from folks who have trained dogs to be working/visiting animals would be really cool. I am currently researching dog breeds. Will be attending the local dog show in March to start interviewing breeders, but want to have narrowed it down to a few breeds by then. This will be my first dog as primary owner. I want a smaller dog, but not one that is small enough to fit into a microwave, because believe me, around here, someone would do it. :tongue_smilie: Not fluffy, due to allergies and laziness (I barely comb *my* hair!), and n -
Would love some help from those with dog training expertise... Our dog, Edison (1.5 years old) has a bad habit that we've been unable to break. Every time DS rides his bike around the property, Edison chases after him and nips at his legs. A few times, he seemed to be taking DS's entire calf into his mouth. DS has never been seriously injured by this (just some minor scrapes), but it's getting scary. It doesn't just happen sometimes - it happens every time DS rides his bike (which he does off and on throughout the day). We consistently tell Edison "No!" in a very stern voice when
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I posted picture awhile back of our new and totally cute little puppy. She's lab/pitt/collie/whatever. Definitely more pitt and lab then anything else though. She's also about 4 months old now, tremendously smart, very easily trained when food is involved and terribly snotty when she gets wound up. We're battling her on the issue of furniture (I don't want her on it). She'll jump up either to get attention from those on the couch or because she's bouncy from play. I'll stand up, point and she'll get off. Then back up. I know, keep at it and I will. But there are times I go to pick her -
How can we teach our dog (23 lb. JRT/beagle mix) that walks are walks and not sniffing opportunities? Some days, we want to a nice fast paced walk and he (rightly so) wants to sniff, explore, rub himself :tongue_smilie: on every patch of grass. Is it possible to distinguish a exercise walk from a sniffing/meandering/marking excursion?
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I mostly lurk around here, but I need some objective input on this.:bigear: First, a little history. We got our beagle 3 years ago, when she was 3 years old and had already been through 2 other owners. We were told they were getting rid of her because they had to move, but she had such a bad reaction to flea bites that she had no hair on her hind quarters. She was uninterested in being house broken and ran away from home like it was her job (we found these last two out on our own:angry Her redeeming feature was how good she was with the kids. She didn't mind my toddlers at all - even i
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You have exceeded the allowed messages in your PM box, so here is the message I was going to send you.;) In your opinion, would a newly minted 9 yo be able to take over the bulk of training our dogs ? It would be pretty much just tricks and things, not the never ending potty training of the new pup. He forgets about not going in the house every time we go camping. Thankfully camping is done for the year! It is a good thing Beagles are so cute ;) She has the most time and drive of any of the kids. She really wants to do it, but I want her to do it properly. What do you think?
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I wanted to give you a huge round of :hurray::hurray: and say thank you for coaching me through my foster malamute/collie x issues. The conditioning approach to reducing tension when I pet the other dogs is really working well. The big girl has even let me pet my golden without treats--she just keeps looking to me for petting/reassurance, and I watch her to distract "the stare" when she locks on the golden. I still have my sister's golden (until Sunday), who has a much stronger personality than my dog's. While she and Lucy (the mal x) aren't going to be BFF's anytime soon, they've mostl -
I have seen lots of good advice on here regarding dog training, and was hoping someone might be able to give me some help here. We are getting pretty desperate, and are going to have to get rid of one of our dogs if we cannot get this situation under control. A little background. We have 4 dogs, inside/outside, 3 males and one female. We have had all of them since they were pups. The oldest is 4, the next is 3, and the two youngest are just now 2 years old. The two youngest are littermates, a male and a female. Both are walker/pitbull mix. They have all gotten along fine until -
What books and websites would you strongly recommend for a first time dog owner? We'll be getting our rescue beagle in about a week and I want to be as prepared as possible!
