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Originally Posted by ziggy925  All of a sudden Ruger refuses to come when called, and it's become a real problem. He's about to turn 9 months old, and I think I read here that this can happen at his age. Any ideas?
He was great up to this point, and I can't think of anything traumatic that happened between then and now. I use treats, but they don't work as well as they used to. Also when I call him inside he runs under the bed now. Almost always when I call him it's to go outside or to the park and he loves it there. He will let me know when he "wants" to go out by standing at the door.
I'm at a loss, and the only thing I can come up with is to retrain him using better treats.
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Teach it again without a word. Put him on a long line and just pat your leg and toss a party with happy sounds and once he gets to you love on him.
No words other then maybe a high pitched pup pup pup.
Once he starts coming your way then add in his name and a differnt word for come like Here or you maybe able to reuse come.
Make it happy and up beat and never use come for I am now going to groom, you put you in a kennel, clip his nails or anything he rather you not do to him. Come is happy.
Around 9 months sometimes older they can go through a teenage stage and instead of worrying about why or what happened as long as you are sure nothing bad went on just re teach it until it is working again and if needs me leave a leash on him while you watch over to use it as a aid to get him to come to you by gentle pulling him in your direction with a lot of happy voice and treats and toys.
JL