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Originally Posted by Opium88  Problem with that is that while I am consistant, my boyfriend is not. He's so busy teaching her to roll over and do cute things that the serious training flies right past him, bless his heart. Ever since we lost Marley any kind of discipline I was going for has been set aside and we pretty much became soft. She's gotten a little better with potty training, and while I could possibly tether her to me to begin housebreak training her again, there's no way he's going to do that. So I try to be consistent, and he just consistently spoils her adorable ass. She's actually pretty good despite everything. |
Your singing to the choir on this one, both people have to be on the same page, if one has other methods, it doesn't work. I really wanted to try Teresa Fords barking theory on Joey, (she has a thread on YT about it) and her methods are quite different than anything I had read before, you're kind of rewarding them for barking and then stopping barking. But if someone else is yelling "No bark" when your doing this, it backfires. First I had to train my husband, and that was the hard part, but once we got on the same page, Joey learned to stop barking after a few initial barks. I would like to teach Joey some other things, but my husband doesn't seem to have the patience. Joey can do all sorts of tricks though.
