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Originally Posted by SweetCuteness  Excellent post! Also, if you use the "nothing in life is free" ideaology, it will help. I've done this for a while, thanks to the advice of someone on this board (I believe it was YorkieK9Trainer?). Basically, the pup doesn't get anything without doing something for you first. For example, I tell Ferdinand to sit before I'll put his food bowl down. I tell him to sit and stay before he can go outside. I tell him to do another random command before I'll scratch his belly. You get the idea - they must successfully follow a command before they get what they want. That way they learn that they don't rule you. It's hard to remember to do every single time at first, but after a while it just becomes second nature to ask them to follow a command before giving them something. |
You are absolutely 100% correct. There are no "free lunches". I do this automatically and take it for granted that others do, too. It is just so natural.
Thank you so very much for this post!