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Originally Posted by jonathon087  I just feel like maybe I'm not the one to train her... She seems scared of me for some odd reason... I've never hit at her and never really yelled at her. I might say 'Daisy, bad!'... Nothing worse. It's just after a while of working with her she'll get like an ashamed look where she'll not look at me and look towards the ground instead... |
I know what you're talking about. I got that look today. I'm working on crawl, and I thought Kaji had the hang of it and was doing this cute "elbow up" army crawl. But... I forgot to add it to our list of tricks we work on every day (Yes, like Capt Noonie says EVERY DAY) so crawl went out the window. I'm starting all over again and when he pounces on the treat instead of following it, or when he plays dead when I try to put my hand on his bum to keep it down as he crawls, I say "no" and I've caught myself saying "NO!" (mean frustrated tone) instead of a more playful "no." Kaji's ears immediately went back, he slumped down, and tail tucked. Not his best learning mentality.
Do you think your wife would be better at the trick/obedience training? I know Kaji won't learn from anyone else in the family, but he will from me. Once it's an established trick, I just show the others how to ask for it and for the most part Kaji does it for them. Try trick training everyday, including weekends, and if after a while you still feel she's not being receptive with you, let your wife take over.