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Originally Posted by tula26  thank you everybody for your input...I am currently looking for a good puppy class to enroll him in...i feel like he was just testing me...he is very stubborn and smart..this is my first puppy and im trying to be a very good mommy..he so reminds me of a two year old toddler..bratty one minute, sweet the next...i do daily training sessions...he is great with sit but not other commands...oh yeah he does know what "treat' means...i get the best advice on this site...its better than most vets!! |
Ya'll will have such fun doing this. He'll just love it when he gets his training right and gets to be around other dogs and mommie, too. Tibbe always has just trained at home as I wasn't able to take him to class but he loves his training - his "work" as I call it to him. He gets so amped up when we I ask him if it's time "to go to work"! And he's always wanting to train! He will do anything you train him to with alacrity as he loves his treat "paycheck" and his hugs, praise. I get right down on eye level and smile real big and tell him how smart he is and how much I love him and he just preens and doglaughs. We really have fun training. He's so good at it he'll be 5 years old in August and I've had him over 4 of those years and he has NEVER left his front yard. Never. And he was a wild, wild door-darter when I got him and he wouldn't even come to you or let you catch him outside in the backyard. He wouldn't come in the house and he would run if you tried to catch him to make him come in. One day it took 45 minutes to get close enough to him to catch him when I first got him! And then I didn't catch him - waited until he unched over to me - another 30 mins or so. He was a little pill to train at first but once he got the idea that it was fun and could pay off for him big - he got with the program. So learn your training method and stick with it, patient as a saint and keep it fun and short, ya'll will get there!