First...WELCOME to YT!!!
I will say that with my cocker, I had "training sessions" with her every day for a few weeks...I left a long leash on her and when I would tell her "here", and she didn't do it, I would tug on the leash. I would keep saying "here"and tug if she wouldn't do it until she was finally by my side. I kept doing it. over and over and over again. Just persistence, I think. and now, even if she knows she is in trouble, she will come to me when I call her.
Maggie (my yorkie) is still in "training" LOL yorkies are very stubborn LOL. but she is catching on. sometimes I think it is easiest to train puppies when they are about 10 months old or so, they tend to have more of an attention span. I do work with my dogs a lot...and it has taken Maggie a while to learn a lot of commands but now we have sit, down, and dance. "here" is still be worked on
I think that and "stay" are the 2 hardest. "here" is hard because if they don't think it is worth their time to come to you, they may have better things to do
"stay" is super hard because they get so excited...they just want to run around LOL
the other commands have been very easy for me to teach maggie. just these 2 are proving to be a toughie.
but the leash trick did work with my cocker. I honestly haven't used it much on maggie. I guess I should try my own advice
