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06-12-2009, 06:14 PM | #1 |
Thor's Human Donating Member | "Leave It, Leave It, Leave It, Leave It, Leave It..." Thor has known Leave It and Drop It for quite some time, but he has been, shall we say, recalcitrant at times when we are in the park. When I tell him to Drop something, I can look into his beady little eyes and see his brain working out if it's worth it to run away from me and eat his discovery anyway. I've been working on reinforcing the command by giving him a treat when he obeys Leave It or Drop It, which is working quite well. However, he seems to have cottoned on to the fact that he will get more than one treat if he Drops an item multiple times. Today, he ran over to me with a chicken bone and dropped it, picked it up, dropped it, picked it up... I started to feel scammed. I know I could only treat him the first time he Leaves it and then just use disapproval... I don't know. He'll also leave the vicinity, then return a few minutes later and act all surprised that hey, there's a chicken bone here! Is there a way to train him that "Leave It" means "Leave It Alone Forever"? I don't think I will ever understand how a dog can be so dumb and so smart at the same time. Well, I guess he IS smart, just not at the things I want to teach him.
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06-12-2009, 06:17 PM | #2 |
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| I have no idea but that really made me laugh picturing that little cutie of yours doing that just so he can get more treats!
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06-12-2009, 06:26 PM | #3 |
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| Thor is very smart. He knows how to work the treat thing!
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06-13-2009, 03:42 PM | #4 |
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| That is so funny, Thor is so smart! I think maybe once he drops something, put it away, or if it's trash or something throw it away so he can't "scam" you again. I think what you're teaching him is like "trade". if he has something you don't want him to have, give him something that's even better, and he'll drop thing #1 and you give him thing #2 as the treat.
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06-15-2009, 09:02 AM | #5 |
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| LOL .... Yup sometimes too smart for OUR own good My Mike now knows that in the morning when he sees me getting dressed for work and I put on my shoes he's going to be put along with his brother in their room I have them stay in while I am at work Other times they have the run of the house as soon as he sees me put on my shoes........ ZOOM He goes right under the bed
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06-17-2009, 06:03 AM | #6 |
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| Wow what a lil smartie! and he is very handsome by the way. Love the name too.
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06-23-2009, 01:31 PM | #7 |
Yorkie Talker | Lol same here.. my dog is WAY TOO SMART. If he knows he can win, he won't give in. when I tell him to stop something, he'll look at me and analyze the situation and either bark back at me and run away or submit if he knows he's trapped. it's usually the former.. I don't know how to get 100% control of these yorkies!!
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06-23-2009, 01:42 PM | #8 |
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