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Originally Posted by JeanieK  That is just rewarding the dog for taking things. Everytime they want a treat they will take something they shouldn't have. They are a lot smarter than you think.
Teach them to give you things. when they have a toy make them give it to you, then give it back to them. They should be taught to release when you tell them to.
The first few times, you might have to give them a low growl, but soon they will learn to give it up when you put your hand on it.
If they view you as the pack leader they will not argue with you. |
I am not a dog nor am I anyones pack leader... my dog/s are smart enough to tell I speak act and think like a human and they understand me far better most times then I them... yes but I have taken the time to learn them on their terms.... and work with not against them makes for more fun and good learning.
Although I am ok with my dogs talking in their language and telling in grr that they are not ok with what I am doing, I tend to not grr back a them as it can be seen as an challenge with some dogs I work with.... I like my face on my face not in its mouth.
I'd rather give calming signals and lip lick or yawn and calm it all down and play nice and ask.
True wild Dogs are not pack animals any way they are social network moving in and out of groups of ones and twos as resources allow and only get in large groups in dumps where they feed that is not a pack that is a mob and it mob mentality at work.
Your everyday get out of the house run at large groups of dogs are not packs either just mobs as well a band of dog that join kill hunt and terroirise at will and not a leader in sight.
What I had suggested is the start of give it to me... you should know you to teach the action before the word as well as dogs do not speak or understand in words like we do. We tend to over word our dogs.
Sit is not sit till we teach it and give it meaning we can teach the sit action on roll ove. green or cup dogs do not care.... they do it ti be with us.
.... I tend to use hand signs and word back up cause you never know when a dog may go blind or deaf.
When we get wrapped up in the words we think our dog are not listening and are rude and ignoring us or dominating use yeah teach the action and see it works.
If you teach trade me you teach give it as well after trade and you can even stop at trade. Once you got the dog on trade me you can put it on random reinforcement and do two trades for one treat then three , then one then five, make the skill you are teaching set in with a great reliability.
Makes for a long long post when you get all the inner works down but if you teach trade you got the job done in a nice short post...
JL