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Originally Posted by zaknnana  Where did you find that?? That is a good idea!! I have a gate across the front porch but Lily does the same thing and she runs like crazy and scares me to death!!
I am having a real problem getting her to "come" to me or anyone?? She will NOT let you catch her to pick her up and she runs from you even to take her out to potty in her xpen or whatever I have to play CATCH to pick her up....she is 5+ months old??? She is a very stubborn little girl but she is afraid of newspaper if I get it out and make noise w/it she will get scared and I can get her like that in the house sometimes. Sit and Stay doesn't do a thing and she doesn't care about the "treat" no matter what it is??? I am at my wits end!!!!! |
She is still a baby so please don't give up on the treats and training her to sit.
Pebbles was known as
DEVELDOG for quite a while when we first brought her home.
She was bolting out the door, running when called, not listening at all when she was 5 1/5 months old. It took a while (months) before we got this under control. Go slow and work with her maybe 3-5 minutes at a time when she is not distracted and work your way up. Sit on the floor and work on just sit and treat and praise. Then get her do it in different places and
keep her leash on her so that she cannot bolt or run from you until she listens. Pebbles walked around for
months with her leash dragging behind her. I would call her and she would run under the bed and the only way to get her out was to pull her out by the leash.
I was at my wits end too, that is why I am so positive this will work for everyone. Believe me it will work! Use something really good to get her attention, cheerios, cheese, lunch meat, chicken, liver sausage it has to be something she thinks is sooooo yummy she will do anything for it.
For her safety block the door temporarily but I guarantee she will do it if you have her attention and lots of patience and consistency.
As much as I love her, if Pebbles would have continued to be out of control I don't know if she would still be with us, that is just how frustrated I was until I started doing this with her. But I was also very determined to not let her control me with her out of control behaviors.
*In the middle of me replying to the message, the girl that had Pebbles before me stopped by. She has not seen her in months~when she was still
Devildog. She was amazed how different she is now compared to the way she use to be when Pebbles lived with her. All of her bad behaviors were part of the reason that she was given up.