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May 13, 2011

My dog is obedience trained. His problem is that he knows when the leash or long line are on and will mind, but gets stubborn when the leash is off.

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I have heard mention correcting a dog many times in your articles. My question is what would a level 10 correction look like compared to a lower level correction? My dog is almost eighteen months old and grabbing by the back of the neck does not have the same affect as it did when he was a puppy. Most of the time he minds, but occasional he will be a knuckle head. He knows basic obedience and most of the time he will respond to me saying "no." Another problem that I have is that he knows when he is on the leash and will behave differently. I make him drag around a fifteen foot line most of the time but my I think that maybe he needs to have a line on him all of the time until he behaves. The problem with that is when I take it off he knows I can't get to him and that's when he does not listen.
Cindy
Cindy Cindy's Answer:
Well to start with you say your dog is obedience trained and it is not. It has not gone through the correction and distraction phases of training. You can read some of what I am talking about in the description of Basic Dog Obedience.



Until you organize your training properly you will continue to have these problems - which are handler mistake problems and not dog problems. It's totally inappropriate to shake an 18 month old dog. This is a correction that is used for puppies. You need to get a prong collar and that video and run this dog through the phases of my obedience program. Then the dog will mind on and off leash.



That tape discusses the levels of correction and when to use them and how.

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