How to teach "Come!" ?????

[cesar49]

Originally Posted by sallen15

I took lucy to a clicker-training puppy class and we practiced calling the dogs name (no more than twice) and when they came to your side you clicked and gave a treat. Eventually they will learn. All we have to do is call Lucy now and she comes right to our side.

i heard those clickers work great.. i need one

[blueeyes_jd]

Originally Posted by Suzy

It takes a little while to teach this-you've got the right idea, to give her treats each time. Start from just a short distance away, with a treat in your hand. Tell her, "COME", and when she does, give her the treat. If she gets easily distracted, or isn't enthused with her treats, up the anti-try cheese, baby carrots, the treats that smell like bacon, etc. And in the beginning, treat EVERY time. That way she'll associate "COME" with TREATS! Once she gets it, move farther away, or randomly call her from another room-carry around a pocket full of treats so you can do this. Sooner or later, she'll catch on. It's difficult to train them sometimes when they're really young-they get distracted easily Best of luck!

this is what I was going to say!

[dundeemax]

I tried using a clicker with Max, he is not interested in the sound.

I'm in the process of teaching him to sit - stay -come. I think it may be successful.

I have been telling him to stay, when we open the doors, and he is responding.

I have been playing football with him in the garden and letting his lead go free, little lengths at a time.

I'm exhausted, but he is loving the whole training thing.

I'm not fooled in the least though, I know it might all go pear shaped tomorrow lol.

[KathyK09]

I can't count how many times Mariah has gotten into something she shouldn't and my husband and daughter CHASE her. You just can't catch her - she's sooo FAST!

The other day she grabbed half my sandwich off my plate while I was eating on the couch. I didn't even see her coming. LOL!

One of her favorite "toys" is an empty water bottle with cheerios in it. When I shake the bottle and she hears the cheerios rattle - she will ALWAYS come running. So we are using that as a tool to help teach her to "Come" and it's working GREAT! Especially when we're DESPERATE to distract her when she has something (paper, sandwich, etc) she shouldn't have. I rattle the bottle while telling her to "come" and then always give it to her - so she always know she is going to get a treat.

We have a bulletin board in our kitchen that has phone lists, etc tacked to it. Recently my sassy cat has been pulling tacks off of our bulletin board and dropping the tacks and paper on the floor. Of course Mariah has grabbed the tack and/or the paper and RUNS! I don't know if that cat is trying to kill the puppy or is just playing...LOL! The first time I caught Mariah with a tack in her mouth I almost had a heart attack!

[dundeemax]

I have given up chasing Max, there's no way I'd ever catch him. Usually if I ignore him, he will come back to me. I only trust him to do this out in the garden. I leave a lead on him during the day, just in case he tries to out smart me. He doesn't have to try too hard, him mind is always one step ahead mine lol.

I am begining to get him to "come", a little further now, however if he's too far away, he'll just ignore me.

Quite a challenge these little furbabies

[eagermind]

Scruff is great at 'come' in the house. if we're out it's harder but he's getting better. As he gets older he's learning more about the advantages to coming back. I give a treat and lots of prase if he comes back straight away and just a 'good boy' if he comes after a little while. If I have to go and get him he gets no praise from me at all.

[a2luckygirl]

Originally Posted by dundeemax

I have given up chasing Max, there's no way I'd ever catch him. Usually if I ignore him, he will come back to me. I only trust him to do this out in the garden. I leave a lead on him during the day, just in case he tries to out smart me. He doesn't have to try too hard, him mind is always one step ahead mine lol.

I am begining to get him to "come", a little further now, however if he's too far away, he'll just ignore me.

Quite a challenge these little furbabies

I can't even catch Banjo now- and he just had leg surgery- I am really slowing down in my old age!
My Bf has to get him- he say's -@#*&- you can' catch a pup with a broken leg!!
anymore Banjo is on a leash or in a carrier, if out!
I am not asking Bf to run down the road after him!

[dundeemax]

How can we mere mortal ever hope to catch our furbabies, their speed is far superior to ours, and there's not much chance of out smarting them either lol.

[Sherryabear]

We are just starting to practice the " come" command in our trainning class. Parker does great except during distrations. Parker refuses to work for treats and his big thing is praise.......so I look the complete fool with my over the top praises in class.

The one thing I did teach him way before we ever started a class was to sit at the back door and not go out until given his clue. So many family members go in and out my back door at all times. I taught him sit by my back door, and then when he was in a sit command , I would open the door and tell him wait, and I constantly did this, many times a day. Only after he sat for more than at least 30 seconds, I would reward him and tell him Ok and let him follow me out the back door.
Now if the door opens, he sits and doesn't go out.
Even tho, we live in the country , my back yard is not fenced except with livestock fencing and he can go thur that. He loves to get in my mini donkey pasture and chase them.......grr.
I think we have a long way to go with the " come" command.

[katcarasella]

Originally Posted by dundeemax

How can we mere mortal ever hope to catch our furbabies, their speed is far superior to ours, and there's not much chance of out smarting them either lol.

Maggie is over 5 now, and when I tell her to come she looks at me as if to say, "You Talkin' To Me!!" with her Robert De Niro look!!
Little Ms Attitude!

I am gonna try the clicker though, do you wrap it in cheese? :sidesplit:

[dundeemax]

I won't say what I think Max is saying when we take him to potty in the rain.
I know that look "are you talkin ta me".

My problem now after teaching to "come" for a few days, is, he runs out of sight, comes speeding back, halts, sits bolt upright, and look at me expectantly for his treat. He's just been getting a pat on the head lol.

[dagibbie]

Our funbaby 5 months old now is getting faster and faster. I broke down and bought a 16 foot retractable lead for our walks. He loves to run when I take him out and I can't alway run. I have had a great deal of luck with this. I let him run to the end and stop. He will stop and look at me and then I start with the come command. He runs back to me, gets his treat and takes off again. WHen we walk in the neighborhood he stays by my side now or out a bit. He is not going to the end of the leash now. He only does that in the big field behind our apartment.

[miss_marley]

The trainer at Marley's puppy class said that when you practice come, the reward has to be a minimum of 2 minutes of play. This way they see coming to you as something fun and positive. Everytime you practice you must do that, so only practice come when you have the time. She also said that you shouldn't use the command come for things like calling them inside the house or bringing them to the vet, etc. at first.

[dundeemax]

Max is coming on by leaps and bounds.

He will sit, stay, come, and respond to a dog whistle. (I can't whistle lol).

I'm dreading him regressing, as seems quite usual, according to what I read.

Fingers and toes crossed.