Training Problems
By kittkatt90
@kittkatt90 (8)
United States
November 29, 2010 2:59pm CST
What problems did/do you have trouble with while training your pooch? Did you resolve it? If so, how?
With my lab Chasity, she kept laying down when we told her to sit. She actually sat only 1/4 of the time. She knew the command, but seemed to hate sitting.
Eventually, she was trained while wearing a choke collar that didn't have enough give to reach low enough for her to lay down. It worked too.
1 response
@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
29 Nov 10
Hi Kittkatt and welcome to myLot!
Have you thought that she may have some problems with her joints? Maybe her hips hurt when she sit, and that's why she avoid sitting. I remember a training demonstration I saw many years ago, there was a Great Dane female who had had a litter right before the demonstration. It was a rainy day and she didn't want to lay down at all, because she didn't want to put her tummy in the mud.
Yet, confusing sit and lay down it's a common mistake young dogs do, when they do not know how to please their masters faster. You have to be consistent in giving her rewards, never reward her if she confused the command.
The only problem I have with my dog, Binne, is the jumping on other people. She doesn't pay any attention to people who acts normally, but when a person starts talking with her in high pitched voice, Binne becomes like mad and nothing can stop her from jumping.
@kittkatt90 (8)
• United States
30 Nov 10
We actually had her checked out at the vet, since labs are prone to hip and joint pains. Fortunately, he said she was fine. She just turns out to be stubborn.
If Binne gets excited over high pitched voices, she must go crazy over kids. :)
@inu1711 (5285)
• Romania
1 Dec 10
Oh, it's great that her joints are fine, there are so many irresponsible breeders that don't test their neither their stud dogs nor their female dogs, and a lot of puppies and their owners have to suffer because of that. I'm glad that you have a healthy puppy.
I don't know if it's stubborn she manifests, I'd rather think about confusion created by our mistakes. My previous dog, Nera, had the same problem when she was young. She was my first dog, and I did all her training by myself, using only a few articles from magazines about dogs. The internet was at the beginning back then, and the information weren't too many at that time. Later I understood I did some mistakes, because I was too glad to see her learning my commands, and I was rewarding her even if she confused the commands.
Now, with Binne, I try not to repeat the same mistakes, but I'm sure sometimes I let myself carried by the joy of seeing her so eager to please me.
You will be surprised to find out that she's extremely good with kids, she doesn't get over excited around them. I let her play with the children from the neighbourhood from the first day she was allowed to get out. I wanted her to be good around children, because Nera didn't like children at all.
