Hi all,
Bella has mastered sit, stay, and lay down.
I'm happy about that, but I am really struggling with the 'come' and 'leave it' commands...which are the two most important ones, and she isn't getting either one.
I'm extremely patient with her, so I know she's not feeding anything off of me, but I think maybe I'm not using a strong enough tone? I have no idea. She thinks I'm playing with her when I say leave it. I say leave it and she drops it...runs around the livingroom growling (playing)...runs back to it and picks it up again. I say leave it, she drops it..but then runs around and grabs it again. =/ It's actually very funny to watch and unfortunately I DO laugh (I'm trying very hard not to). What are some tricks I can use to teach her to leave it and LEAVE it, instead of it leaving it and coming back for it like a Boomerang?
Coming she hates. I've googled, and I've tried a bunch of different things, but she doesn't understand any of them. It's not her...she's a VERY bright puppy. Maybe I'm confusing her with trying different things instead of just one?
I'd like to have the peace of mind knowing that if something were to happen, I can say "come" and she'll stop whatever she's doing and come to me.
She loves racing to me and waiting for me to pick her up...that's not a problem when she's doing it on her own, she does it all the time. But..I can't seem to figure out a way to get her to stop and come to me regardless of what she's doing.
Right now we're working on "sit pretty" and she's already done it a few times, so I think she'll learn that one easily too.
It's the
important ones that she's not getting, and those are the two I'm really wanting her to learn.
Thanks!