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Originally Posted by LadyGemma  Thank you all so much for responding. May I ask what method you used- out of a book, website, common sense, experience, etc? Thanks, and Moxie thanks you too (or she will, once she learns her manners!) |
Common sense, and prior parenting experience.
I would advise that you choose the words you will use to train, ahead of time, and be consistent with them. Sit, stay, down, here....all went well. But we have a few goofs.
Before I'd decided on "leave it", ZoE tried to get into something nasty as a very young 7-8 week old puppy, and I yelled out "yucky!" And she backed away. A month latter and I shattered a glass dish on my kitchen floor and no amount of telling her to stay away did any good, so remembering how she backed away at the last incident, I yelled out "yucky!" It worked again, and now we are stuck with it.
The first time after getting ZoE, that my daughter came home from college, and was in the driveway unpacking her car, I said "where's Lauren?" And ZoE ran to the window to look out at the driveway. Well, it turns out ZoE interpreted it To mean, someone's here to visit us. Because now, four years on, even if Lauren is standing in the room with Zo and you say "where's Lauren?", she goes running to the window over looking the driveway to see who's here to visit us. lol.
So, choose your training words wisely!
