2020 12 18
I said I would do training again so here we go
for years as a kid----- along time ago I was obsessed with getting a dog to roll over and regardless of how many times I rolled that cocker spaniel over it never did learn ... then I got a poodle .. which was a much sillier dog and used to roll on her back just for fun ..and I found out if I quick got on the other side she could roll herself over and within a very few minutes she learned to roll over... because she did it !! not me...
Case study two
in trying to teach the puppies to use the yuppy puppy ---which for you newcomers--- is basically a gumball machine with a bone handle and dog treats –
I cannot tell you how many times I have picked up their foot and put it on the handle with zero success .. if I keep my hand by that handle and they get exasperated and finally hit my hand with their paw ... and hit that handle at the same time making stuff come out ,,then basically they've learned it in five seconds.
very very many of these things have caused me to decide the best way for a dog to learn to do something is to use their own muscles .. Which if you extrapolate that to the extreme .. you ended up with young puppies and spoons of canned dog food as the initiation to the world of humans .
they love canned dog food ...we use purina pro plan because not only is it good food but it sticks to the spoon pretty well ...so if you open the canned dog food and tap the can with the spoon they'll come running ... so let's think of that from the very beginning you get your can of dog food and you get your spoon and you say puppy puppy puppies come on and then you open the can of dog food and pretty soon you have them coming to you before you get the can open Just when you call puppy puppy puppy ... which down the road will be “ sizzle come...” And you set the instinct at least to come towards you .
Compare that concept with having a dog on long leash.. the dogs 20 feet away from you you say his name and come while he's sniffing the ground and he continues to sniff the ground 'cause that's what he wants to do and you give him a good pull with the leash to pull him to you ..
that dog is still thinking of the last sniff of the interesting smell he had and you interrupted his thought process which was sniffing the ground .. which if it doesn't make the dog dislike you .. the dog will at least think s he interrupted me .. and as annoyed with having to go to you---- there is a whole different atmosphere .
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There is I have to admit a teenage rebellion phase which they may go through which is a lot easier to deal with if they have a foundation a running toward ue so good things can happen ..
Now think—”
“fido get over here and get in this crate I need to get out of here ,I am late for a dentist appointmentand I don’t want you to eat the curtains when I am gone.”
And fido Is thinking... “ anytime I get near her she sticks me in that box and I don't like it so I won't go near her until she catches me “
so even with young puppies you need an awful lot of come here something nice will happen and go away without sticking them in a car or a crate or anything else because their whole learning process goes directly from A to B and you can't slip anything in between ..
actually calling the dog to be fed it's dinner... have the dish of food ready. and when fido is out of sight... call them for dinner that is a great wsay to start...
and at that point do not do anything besides put the food in front of them.... because if you do the "sit there til i say you can eat."
' ... is putting a big negative right after you called them......
to be continued because I'm in a hurry we do still have snow problems
besides running around in a nice warm car listening to cd it's not a bad way to spend the morning
