WD6474 - i did the penny thing to. And the water thing. Both worked the first 2 or 3 times. Then I started forgetting the can or water. Diagnosis: (for me) I didn't keep this up long enough for her to learn. I'm starting again. If the can doesn't work I'm buying myself a water gun. The mist doesn't seem as distracting as a stream may be. And this time I am going to keep at it for several weeks. I just finished reading one of the articles that HAMOTH attached to his very informative post. It said that it takes at least 30 repetitions for a dog to learn a trick. I'm guessing that it will take as many, if not more, repetitions for them to stop an unwanted behaviour. I need to go on nights at my job so I can spend the entire day retraining Lexi. My fault though for not doing this stuff since day one. |