Quote:
Originally Posted by Britster  YAY Milu!!! 
I'm still working with Jackson on "Leave It" and "Drop It." He's wonderful at drop it when we're playing a game of fetch with his toys or something, he will always drop it on command; however, it's a different story when it's something sooo good, LOL. He's grown up with a 5 year old boy and a 1 1/2 year old girl who are constantly dropping food, throwing food, or holding it out for Jackson unknowingly, so Jackson's picked up this habit of grabbing things.  The one thing that works for him 99.9% of the time if I need him to drop something (ex: he had lipgloss today!) I just say "Want a treat?" and he drops anything and comes running over to me, lol. So, it's not quite "Leave it" but it works!
Congrats Milu! She's such a cutie.  |
haha! you are tricking jackson!
i think it's really important to teach them 'leave it' and i think what might help with that is you make jackson associate leave the command with treat. every time you say leave it, you give him treat
immediately after he does it.
like maybe you can say, "leave it, want a treat?" "leave it, treat!" like that for a while, then eventually, you can leave out saying the treat part, and he will just listen to "leave it" command. (because he knows he will get a treat if he does it)