Dog Whisperer
We have run out of ideas of how to contain Winston's over exuberance for visitors to include us when we return from an errand. Robin contacted him and our schedules finally meshed. I was very skeptical, after all what could someone do in 3 hours that we haven't been able to do in 10 months? The answer is A LOT! We let the dogs greet him at the door without restraint. Dexter decided he was safe so ran to get a bone. Winston thought he was wonderful and proceeded to leap and jump like Todd was his best buddy that he hadn't seen in months. Todd immediately gave him a short blast from his Pet Convincer ( http://www.petconvincer.com/) and the jumping stopped. He gave him about 3 more short blasts in the next 30 minutes then only had to hiss to change Winston's direction. Hissing works for us, too. I am a believer that dog training is more human training than dog training so we got 3 hours of quality training this afternoon. Our dogs are completely different dogs. We know better how to get in touch with them and to get them to respond. The training included leash walking and within 10 minutes we could throw the end of the leash around our neck and walk around the yard on a completely slack leash. He was well worth the money and time! |
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| That's wonderful! Kristine |
| Glad you had such great success in such a short time! |
| One of the things I often have to convince people of in class... ...the fact that one really good correction that is clear and understood - is better then a hundred smaller naggy ones.  That's the way it works in the dog world.Dogs don't understand "naggy" - they just walk all over you.  Glad you got results and have a plan. |
| Interesting, glad he was a help. What did he show you to do to get the dog walk on a slack leash in such a short time? its taken months of consistency to get Monty to walk on a slack leash. |
| Collar kind of tight and high on their neck like in a show ring. Hand close to your waist so there isn't any arm give when you turn. When the dog moves ahead or away immediately turn around, even if you have only taken a couple steps. Only progress when they grt it roght, they understand progress so not going anywhere drives the lesson home. Finally progressed to making small sort of twitch corrections with finger movement only, no jerking. The turn around technique we knew but had never seen it applied. We have a circular drive and never left it or the road connecting it. Of course it will take reinforcement which we have done a couple times each day. You also watch their head, it should be in line with their back, showing that they are working, not sightseeing with their head up looking around. They should also check on you once in a while so frequent direction changes are necessary. The leash should be almost perpendicular to them, not parallel which induces them to pull. Turns into them are pushed with your leg, not with the leash across them, a couple times and they move when you do. We knew most of this from reading and people telling us but have not seen it in practice so didn't have it quite right. A 15 minute walk around the drive way completely wears them out, more than a 1.7 mile fast paced walk around the neighborhood. Mental exhaustion is good! |
Thanks for the tips  |
| Sprocket can do the turn round bit ok in the garden but when get out on the road and he sees a bird he forgets all reason and just pulls. We stop,maybe fo backwards-he predicts the going backwards so I change what we do or he goes back a few paces and straight away pulls again. I try to make him stay so he just about level with me ( a fraction in front so he can see-the training class said that !) After a run round the fiels he will walk to "heel" fine but we can't always go round the fields. When in a crowded plese (took him to an auto jumble last sunday to help mix with crowds) I had him on his halti-he was very good untill he saw another dog and then he barked and tried to jump around. I found making him sit and didn't move until he stopped barking seemed to lessen the times he did this. That was the reason for going to the training class so he could learn to meet other dogs and not bark but they just said-"take him away from the dogs when he barks" that way he won't learn not to bark though I though? Any advice Dawn? It was you that made me determined to try to walk with a collar and lead rather than the halti. He can be "good" when it's just me but if husband with me he pulls all the time so we wouldn't get to where we are going-post office or wherever so the halti gets used by husband 'cos with my 2 prolapsed discs I can't have him pulling-Help please.x |
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