dec 20 2022

doorway training ---

working on...... for the newspaper.. about training a dog in a doorway.. with a picture of courtney's kiddo and her dog on opposite sides of a baby gate... it is possible to train a dog to stop at a doorway and ask permission to come into a room and it's done very simply by physically blocking the dogs way and saying WHOA  and stamping your foot... dogs do not like to be startled so generally they'll stop and look at you like why did that happen?? .. and they will basically look for more directions than you can tell them to wait..... walk on or go away... but don't just leave them standing there wondering....

dogs do not do confusion well and if you don't tell them what to do next they'll figure out that you weren't serious... Besides in all of dog training it's not polite to leave the dog wondering.  ( THE WORST  SITUATIONS  ARE When someone tells a  dog to sit or down then walks away pleased with themselves that they got the dog to do something and they forget to tell the dog that they can go back to being normal that's just plain rude in dog language)

it doesn't take long to set up this “doorway "  sequence  which involves having the dog trying to step over the threshold which case you stamp your foot again and say BACK..;; and   Without too much effort the dog in the doorway will eventually learn whoa ... wait  ---come in ---back--- walk on--- go away Which are handy things to know anywhere all it takes is a little consistency for a few minutes/

so that is next week’s news   hopefully...,

 

other than that ... it is the fence in the arena for todays excitement... maybe....

this baby gate left me wondering who was walled in or out?????

was it robert frost???

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,