wont listen

[kikil]

we have been trying to get her to come. sometime in the day she will come but not all the time. she wont come at all at night at all. and she want to sleep in my parents room. but thats not where she been sleeping from the day we got her. she sleep in my room. but for some reason we can't get her in here tonight.

[Wylie's Mom]

Have you tried obedience classes yet, or are you already familiar w/ how to train doggies? For me, I truly had NO clue as to how to effectively speak 'dog' and train them in a way they understood.

[kikil]

she classes before and she took it over again in class she will do some of it there like listen and few other just at home and very late at night she just don't want to do it at all

[southernbelle04]

We are looking into another class for Katie Scarlett as well for this. We took puppy kindergarten and puppy graduate classes and she did great. But now I think she is in that adolescent stage and she is getting stubborn. Sometimes she minds and sometimes she doesn't. LOL. Thank goodness every one finds her cute or she would be in big trouble. Anyways, there is a class at our local dog training center called 'stay/come no matter what' that I want to take with her. Maybe you could research classes offered in your area for help. I truly believe that continued education helps. Puppy kindergarten is great, but for me, we gotta keep on learning and reminding her of what she learned. Good luck to you hon!

[kikil]

yeah we are thinking about trying to find a different traner since my mom think the one at petsmart don't know what she doing. but she has gotting her to do things that we cant. but if we find a different class and they maybe lower then what petsmart is ofterning. and may do a lot more. I don't know if 6 week of class work that good for her or if she need something that goes longer then 6 or something like 12 weeks. we just have to keep on looking around

[Ahis_Mama]

Yeah sometimes they can just be stubborn and need to just be taught. over and over and over again if we must. lol Ahi will sometimes just look at me when I say come. But if I use the "stern" voice and say "Get over here...now" she will immediately come. It just takes lots of consistency and patience. Good luck!

[kikil]

yeah mine is very heard head. yeah when she know I am mad she will come closer not all the way. but if I use her middle name then she know I mean buessnies with her but sometime that don't all way work. she think she is the boss of this house and that not going to fly with us.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by kikil

yeah mine is very heard head. yeah when she know I am mad she will come closer not all the way. but if I use her middle name then she know I mean buessnies with her but sometime that don't all way work. she think she is the boss of this house and that not going to fly with us.

Oh, Kiki, if you are getting mad at her during training, that explains a lot about her lack of response to your training attempts since your last round of posts. Unless you can hold your emotions totally in check & make training fun for a dog, they will just tune you out & hate the whole process. I totally understand that they can make you want to bang your head against a cement wall at times but you just can't let them know that you feel that way. If I began to lose patience, even a little bit, I just go ahead & stop the session & walk away after a little playtime with a dog. You always need to end training sessions with fun time.

If she thinks she is the boss, that is probably because you haven't established a true leadership role with her & gained her trust. Patient, gentle & loving training of a dog with positive reinforcement of everything they do right when training will help to establish that you are boss & trust will start to build. To complete establishing a healthy leader/follower partnership team, begin the Nothing In Life Is Free method of establishing leader/follower roles. You can type in those words with the word "training" on Google & read about how to do it. It's really easy but it takes persistence. You have to keep it up until the dog begins to accept you as their leader so that they listen to you & do what you say 99% of the time.

Truly, if she is a normal dog & doesn't have brain damage/learning disability, she can & will learn basic obedience, as long as you make it fun, short & rewarding for her. If she is normal, you are the one who has to learn how to train her. And if she is not responding to you, is misbehaving & is a normal dog - guess whose fault that is - dog or human? You just need to learn & stick to proper training methods, most especially with a dog who tries to be "boss" or is "hard headed".

What books have you read so far about training?

[Potter]

I think with dogs that are smart like the Yorkies, they often have their own minds. To a certain extent, they are able to think for themselves so sometimes, they do what you say when they feel like it, when they don't, well they don't lol

[gracielove]

Like Yorkietalkjilly said training a dog is all about praise and reward. When your dog does it right or even close to right you need to show how pleased you are with her. What you learn in class has to be practiced at home daily. If you do not keep up with the training the dog will regress. Even people who show their dogs in obedience trials continue to train their dogs daily. If you want her to come she cannot be afraid of you. If you have gotten upset with her during the day she is going to avoid you at night. You need to call her with a happy voice and reward her when she does come. Do not get upset. It takes patience. She wants to make you happy but if she does not understand or is afraid you are not going to have good results.
You might want to go to a real trainer and not the one at PetSmart. Look for someone who has dogs that they have trained to go to obedience shows. Someone who has years of experience and a good reputation for having happy healthy dogs.

[lynzy420]

Didn't read all the posts but just wondering are you sure your pup can hear?
Took me 7mos. to realize mine was really deaf and not just hard headed, well she is hardheaded but thats another story

[gemy]

Come is a very very hard command to teach successfully. I know I've been there a number of times.

Teaching successfully means that the dog comes to you no matter what distractions are around, what they are interested in in that moment, and the dog will come to you even if there is NO reward in sight.

The first rule of any obedience command is to "set your dog up for success". Let's take sit as an example. You have a very young puppy; you have a Yummy treat in your hand, you show let dog sniff treat, then you lift it up just above their nose, and their butt will go down, just before it does hit the floor, you say GOOD SIT. Immediately reward!!.

Come should be taught in the home first. There you can control the environment the best. Meaning you make sure there are no distractions. You have some time say 5 minutes.

Build from the successful sit that you have taught. After a few sits and treat rewards. Just walk away, but walk away with a hidden treat on you. Hopefully the puppy has not followed you. If so, wait until they lose interest in you. then Say their Name, and happy lilt in your voice call COME. She comes to you immediately reward with treat, and then pets, kisses, smiles and hugs. In other words make a Big Deal out of it!.

If she doesnt' come. DO NOT REPEAT the command. Ignore her failure. BAck into the kitchen you go. It usually takes puppys all of 24 hours to figure out where your kitchen is and that KITCHEN means FOOD. Try the come command in the kitchen where all good things from Momma comes from. Most dogs will come easily to you in the Kitchen.

Once she has a firm and constant come in the Kitchen; branch out to the next closest room. Once she has come reliably there, expand the distance.

Each and every time she comes to you to a new room, a larger distance, make a huge fuss over her.

This takes time and lots and lots and lots of repetition.

Training as someone earlier said is really never ever over. And that is okay, in fact it can be hugely fun.

Just so you know to get a reliable come in "all" circumstances, it might take as many as 1000 previous successful come commands. :-)

[bchgirl]

Excellent advice, gemy. To the op you want puppy to realize coming to you means good things. Carry treats with you always when teaching....come.

Some day...come may save her life.

[kikil]

I am not getting mad at here while we are in training. I get mad at her when she just don't want to come to me when we try to get her in her bed/pen at night or just to come in the room where we are at. thats when I get mad at her. I don't get mad at training time

[kikil]

yeah I think she don't want to do a lot of things. and lot of it start at night around bed time sometime