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Originally Posted by babydaisy  It seems just as if you are talking about my Daisy, she knows what she supposed to do, but, does the opposite, it is frustrating!!!! |
In reality probably Daisy, does not know what to do.
We as humans tend to teach the word before the action.
They do not speak words and do not understand them before we put a value and the action to them. As far as they know we could tell them Blue was for sit action and Horse was go pee.
Dogs tend to once it learned will pop it from short term memory to long term and loose it for a time.
Dogs do not generalize at all so sit in the kitchen or come in the yard does not mean come in the house or sit outside.
You have to teach it several places and with distractions plus a great deal of times to proof it and say the dog not got it.
Then we go into the human end ....
We as humans tend to change our voice pitch and that changes the whole thing for dogs. To them it not the same and your fault, not theirs.
We tend to change the words from come, to come here, or to here or what ever word we think works for come.
We also tend to nag come come come or sit, sit, sit rapid fire and forceful will get a stop action in the dog.
We do not give our dogs time to think it through.
Forceful or deep tone of voice slows a dog down ( the slow down is cause going slow and sniffing in dog language is Chill out) and Sharp high pitched one will make them move.
We tend to forget that dogs are not verbal beings but visual and putting things on a hand cue will get a better response.
JL