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06-04-2015, 05:31 PM | #1 |
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| Are there any good training ebooks out there? Okay, I just found another dog training ebook, Secrets to Dog Training, but every time I try to find a review all I can find are more ads for the program. Anybody know about these programs? When Ruger sneaks out the door I want him to come back immediately, not when he feels like it. When he's heading toward danger I want STOP to mean something. Many of these books promise that, but the last ebook I paid for was pretty lame. Any ideas or reviews? |
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06-05-2015, 04:41 AM | #2 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | The book in this thread is supposed to be good... http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...info-pics.html
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06-06-2015, 04:50 AM | #3 |
YT 1000 Club Member | Have you taken him to an obedience class? I have had great success with taking my dogs to classes. It is a chance for them to look better than the other dogs by doing it better than them and then they can go home and do that as well. I know that for my dogs, I learned this in a training class of course many years ago. When a dog gets out you call them back with whatever command you use (I use the word Touch) and when they come back you praise them and give them a treat for coming back and forget that they left in the first place. I had a fox terrier as a child (lived to be 19 years old) and we went to Washington DC in a motor home and took him with us. On a very busy street we opened the door of the motor home and he ran out and into traffic. Luckily he made it across a 4 lane road. We yelled at him to SIT, and STAY and the cars stopped and let my oldest sister go across the street to him where he was sitting and waiting for her. Although we could not get him to not run across the street, at least he listened to the sit and stay command from across the road. Probably saved his life. I would try a training class though because it seems like I got the best results from the dog by going and it is just good for the dogs to do because I think they learn it better. I also teach my dogs that they are not allowed to cross the front door thresh hold without permission. My 2 older dogs know this, and I am working on the puppies. They are learning STAY very quickly. However, since I got the puppies Teek just runs out the front door now, he did not do this before. We put up a gate on the front porch so if any of them get out the door they are stopped by the gate. It is a nice safeguard. It will also keep our neighbors lab off our porch (been a problem for years). Even a simple Petsmart training class can make the difference on if the dog learns the commands or not. If you train at home I would get a 30-50 foot training lead. Then have someone hold the lead in the middle of the yard, someone else walk the dog to the end of the lead and you at the opposite end of the yard and call the dog with the command word you use and praise and treat when they come. Then have the other person call the dog to them and praise and treat. Always reach around the dogs head and grab the collar and then treat. It will make catching a dog that runs a lot easier. When the dog gets good at this, the person in the middle can even have a treat in front of them (you have to teach the dog the leave it command first) and as they go past them tell them to leave it (the treat in front of the person with the leash). I had a dog that loved me so much she would not even think about stopping to get the treat, she just wanted to get to me so badly, but going back toward my husband she would stop to get the treat. LOL. Then back to me and she would just put it in high gear to get to me as quickly as she could. The trainer knew who that dog belonged to. Make it a game and when they learn then they will come back when called.
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