Need advice on yard problems
We have a 14 week old puppy. She is completely house trained. The problem we are having is that we have a extremely large fenced in yard and after she goes to the bathroom we cannot catch her to bring her back inside. She wants us to chase her. Any advice on getting her to come back in the house would be greatly appreciated. We have tried giving here treats with mixed results HELP!! Thanks |
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I would recommend basic obedience, learning to come when she's called is important for your sanity, as well as the dog's safety |
I agree with Willowsprite 100%. However, in the meantime I found that if I crouched down or sat down on the ground the dog will run over to me. Or get a 25 ft training leash and put the pup on it and when it is done, reel her in.  |
| Yeah, we had this problem with Dixie for the longest time. She prefered being outside.
What we did is make it really worth her while to come inside. There is a cookie jar on the kitchen counterr with her name on it. Everytime we came inside we went straight to the counter and gave her a cookie. It didn't take long for her to race inside the house any time we called her in, and she would run right to the counter and wait for her treat... 
You can start something like that right now, so you don't have to wait until obedience classes start. This does NOT replace coming when called, however, but at least it will get her inside the house so you don't have to chase her. |
| We have been working a lot on this too here are a few things that have helped. We really reward with good smelly treats. I repeat syllables - its a trick our trainer taught us we do pup pup pup. I think the repeating sounds keeps their attention without saying there name more than once.
When we started working on this we would say House before openning the entrance door and then treat once she is inside. Now when we are out in the yard we can say House and she is heading toward the door. Hope it helps. |
| I hope you find an answer that works for you and your dog! I have the same problem.
Yuki LIVESSSSSSSSSSSSS for treats. Her life revolves around what she can do to get food, but unfortunately, having a treat ready for her when she is outside doesn't work for her. The second she comes in, she will sit in front of her treat bag until she gets something ...even if you wait an hour before remembering. However, when she's outside, her brain goes off. She doesn't appear to be concentrating on "where to pee" ...she's just ...I don't know... in her own world. So, we still have that problem. What ALWAYS works for us, since yuki has a strong herding instinct is pretending like we're running inside the house. She HATES anyone running because it's out of her control and someone is ahead of her, so will come back. Other than that, I just tug on the leash. "Come" only works inside the house or while at training class. "That'll do..." works while she's herding sheep and 30% of the time at home. Seems to respect this command more. Guess she thinks with this command she did a task, and "that'll do" means she did it correctly/enough. ::shrugs:: |
I had the same problem when brie was a baby, she turned it into "Catch me if you Can" 
Problem solved, Clicker Training, love it and at 4 years old she still comes running to me when I use the clicker and plants herself right in front of me in a sit position. We go to the park and off leash I just use the clicker and where ever she is, she comes back to me.  Beats yelling out at the top of my voice for her to come, just a simple click and she is back. 
Simple process and works wonders as the "click" eventually turns into the reward for coming back, instead of treating them all the time, she was not interested in coming back for a treat, totally ignored me  now she comes running back for a "Click".  |
| It is training, but also is she getting enough exercise? Could be she's using this time to run off energy that's been pent up inside her. Your girl needs to run, jump, bark a bit and feel with wind beneath her ears.
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