My sweet baby girl is a pest. If my trainer saw her right now she would be shaking her head in her hands. She constantly wants to play. Play play play. They call it high drive. I call it annoying. In the course of a day I will have socks, balls, frisbees, shoes, any dirty clothes left out, paper, and stuffed animals dropped at my feet. Please mom play with me.
The trainer says training is the key. Training will tire her out. But it tires me out before it tires her out. Most of the time she is compliant, but those times when she gets a bee in her bonnet, it becomes a bit stressful. I am not suppose to get frustrated and just keep at the command, but once I get frustrated the training goes off the rails.
Like the place and down command. So I put her in place and say down, she is suppose to stay there until I release her. But there are times that I put her in the down command and a minute later she will get up and go hide. Seriously she hides. Sometimes it is easier to get to her than others, but at this point she is in full mode disobedience. I am calm in the beginning telling her to go back to her place. After about 10 tries, I realize that she is not going to follow my command, so then it is just plain come.
But now she is in full blown I don't have to listen to you, and I am not going to do anything you say. So from a calm, T Come, it becomes, YOU STUPID DOG, COME WHEN I TELL YOU TO COME, COME, COME, COME. ARGHH. And she sits there looking at me like I have been beating her.
I grab her put the leash on her, and lead her to her place not saying a word, just seething, and she suddenly is compliant. As the frustration dissipates, I free her, and the next thing I know I have a sock in my lap.
I need more training.
The trainer says training is the key. Training will tire her out. But it tires me out before it tires her out. Most of the time she is compliant, but those times when she gets a bee in her bonnet, it becomes a bit stressful. I am not suppose to get frustrated and just keep at the command, but once I get frustrated the training goes off the rails.
Like the place and down command. So I put her in place and say down, she is suppose to stay there until I release her. But there are times that I put her in the down command and a minute later she will get up and go hide. Seriously she hides. Sometimes it is easier to get to her than others, but at this point she is in full mode disobedience. I am calm in the beginning telling her to go back to her place. After about 10 tries, I realize that she is not going to follow my command, so then it is just plain come.
But now she is in full blown I don't have to listen to you, and I am not going to do anything you say. So from a calm, T Come, it becomes, YOU STUPID DOG, COME WHEN I TELL YOU TO COME, COME, COME, COME. ARGHH. And she sits there looking at me like I have been beating her.
I grab her put the leash on her, and lead her to her place not saying a word, just seething, and she suddenly is compliant. As the frustration dissipates, I free her, and the next thing I know I have a sock in my lap.
I need more training.
T3 FETCH! You do need more training. As our former vet, Jack McElroy said, he's never seen a dog that could use a can opener. She is cute with the socks, etc.
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