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Has your Yorkie been to obedience school? Hi! Oscar is almost done with his 10 week obedience class. We go to Animal Inn Training Center in Minnesota. I'm considering continuing his education into advanced obedience and agility. How many others here have gone through obedience school, and where did you go? :) |
My dogs go to the good ol school of Mom cause I am not only a licensed groomer but also a licensed trainer. |
We put Eddie through Petco's 6-week adult program when he was 11 months. It was a pretty basic class, but he learned a lot. We were mainly interested in teaching him better leash manners and to stay and come on command. He learned all that and more. |
You do know that it is not the yorkie that has to learn obedience? It is us who needs to learn how to communicate our wishes to the dog. They can do anything, we need to learn how to tell them. Therefore an untrained or inobedient dog is never to blame - it is the human who is a stupid mutt! |
I would agree with that. My first lesson: I used to SCREAM at Eddie to "COME" when he ran away. Of course, he ran anyway. The class instructor told me to soften my voice. When I did that, he came. Imagine that. |
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However, dogs have their good days and bad days, and it is in their nature to learn to be obedient due to the fact that they are a pack animal with a pecking order. You can tell a dog, in the right way, to do something, but it will not learn it without repetition and consistency. So that being said, I think both owner and dog must go through a learning process. :) |
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In regards to my checking "no" - I taught Sully by myself. So, in a sense yes he also went to Obedience School of Mom, haha! He got training, that's for sure! I just didnt' have to pay for it and he got more individual attention, lol. |
I have never took mine to obediance school.,our male goes to 4h with one of my boys and has learned alot from that is much better minded now told Nathan he needs to take them all now |
Yes the training classes are TO TRAIN YOU, to train them. Bailey went to a 6 week program, and there was this woman that said " OH we dont just leave them and pick them up later?" the trainer said " NO!!" We had some dandies in our class. :D |
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Isn't that the truth. I can get the kids to mind and -respect me. If my husband tries they just ignore him. They think that he is a joke. I can take the kids out with me when I want to sit in my garden- they all stay with me and do not take off. My hubby tried this with just one of them they were going to have some male bonding time- wrong Reggie exited stage door left and would not respond to my husbands demands or pleadings to return. The scamp went to the manure pile at the horse barn and had a wonderful time. He needed a bath inside and out. Wow did he stink- and no thank you- no kisses today mister. He knew that when I called he had to come and did. wnalegria |
Maggie keeps getting expelled. She is such a sassy mouth!!! :rolleyes: |
I really want to get Jeremiah into obedience class but I don't have time too. Too many things to do at home but I guess when he gets older I'll take him because you gotta teach an old dog new tricks. :p |
Yup! Bailey was enrolled in a puppy class back when we first got him. It was mainly to socialize him, but he did learn "sit" & "come" along with being socialized |
Sophie and I will be taking an 8 week Basic Ed course at Petsmart starting July 27th. |
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I haven't taken Reagan and probably won't. We took our last puppy, our bloodhound and since its like everyone says the class is mainly to teach you how to teach them we've been taught already. Auburn really didn't learn too much in the class itself. All it did was teach us and make us work with her at home b/c we didn't want to look bad in class. But I think it was great for her to get to see and play with the other dogs. Also it did allow us to work with her in a heavily distracting area (the 15 other dogs and their people). I would like to take Reagan for this reason but will probably just continue training her at home. |
I have not taken my two pups but probably will. I would like to train Chachi to walk better than he does. |
I home schooled in obedience for most of my yorkies. The only one I took to obedience school is Teddy and only because I want to achieve a level in which I can compete with him. Fingers crossed: Hopefully, Teddy will be ready to compete in AKC obedience next year. |
Mocha was attending a basic obedience class (she was the worst dog there) lol.. I was learning alot and she would have graduated next week :-(.. I had a good time through for the 4 weeks we did go.. We met several other dogs!! I recommend it 100% |
Yep, Keeley just graduated from Petco's puppy classes (6 week course). I went because I really wanted to learn the best way to communicate with Keeley, and i also like the supervised/leashed socialization that he was able to do. I felt it really helped me and he picked up on everything that we were taught very very quickly. I loved it and am thinking about starting more classes in a few months. I loved having something like that, that we could do together outside of our usual enviornment. |
Mine did too and they learned a lot. |
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