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Originally Posted by YorkieChanel So what the trick>? I sometimes thing that positive is not the way to go. I seen dogs that get treated bad at the star and they learn their lesson, i think mine has beeeeen ttooooooooooooooo sPOILED!!! |
While I agree that many of these dogs you see behave nicely because they have been "treated bad", having a dog who obeys because he is afraid of me is not the kind of relationship I want with my dog. Positive training may take a little more work, but I think it is well worth it.
The only mistake you've made is in comparing your 9 month old puppy to dogs of indeterminate age. Your dog is in adolescence. He is going to be more difficult that a young puppy and more difficult than an adult dog. It is the nature of the beast.
I'm told that what we have to do with an adolescent dog who starts refusing commands, is go back to square one. Reteach your "come" command in the kitchen, broaden to further away in the house, then close by in the yard, then gradually further away. They also say that if you are afraid of refusals to do all of this on a leash of increasing lengths so that pup can NOT refuse.
Stay has to be taught in tiny increments. First, one second - reward, 2 seconds -reward, etc until you have gradually worked up to longer lengths of time and off the leash.
Loose leash walking - I'm no help. I know that it also has to be taught in tiny increments (one step at the time), but we haven't mastered it yet. Part of my problem is my own ambivalence - I'm just not sure how important it is to me for a tiny dog to walk on a loose leash. In other words, I don't care all that much and, unfortunately, he knows it.
Sorry so long.