My GSDs are outside 24/7 so it's just "kennel" for me.
One of my daughter's was teaching her chi dog that "place" was his pillow. He learned it quickly but then pulled a little "one up" on her. Now when told to "place" he gets his pillow and drags it to where ever the family is in the house.
Evil little bass plug with feet!!

Oooooh! Smarty!!!!

LOL

I use the place command to mean go lay down on your bed.

My female was taught 'go to your place'. Go to your bed & lay down.

My male was taught 'go to your bed'. Go to your bed & lay down.

Platz is my formal command to 'drop to a down & stay there'.

Go lay down means just go lay down somewhere & stop pestering me or wandering around.

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I use the place command to mean go lay down on your bed.

So then, for you, it doesn't mean what it does to Bob's granddog: "Go get your bed and drag it out here because at least that will slow you down a little"?

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 Quote: Anne Jones

I use the place command to mean go lay down on your bed.

So then, for you, it doesn't mean what it does to Bob's granddog: "Go get your bed and drag it out here because at least that will slow you down a little"?

I try and tell her that the dog is flipping her the bird but she's happy with the fact it stays on the pillow (and wants to be near the family) :rolleyes:.
I guess my need to control just didn't carry over to her.

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Go lay down means just go lay down somewhere & stop pestering me or wandering around.

That command is often heard in my house, too, for exactly the same reason.

This thread interested me, and so I decided to look at commands and commonly understood applications of same.

Mostly, "platz" translates to "down."

Other commands, such as "box" translates to "kennel."

Kinda like stating the obvious but the idea of commands is to specify an outcome you train for.

Or put another way, if you want to command "cabbage" and have it translate to "down" so be it in your world.

Dogs are in our worlds and orbits... I love to use that word, 'orbit,' and there are so very few opportunities. I digress. For some of us, we adopt a vocabulary with our dogs that is functional if not conversational, where if we were in a more structured orbit, such as schutzhund, a word or gesture would have a specific, specified outcome expectation.

I think I shall train 'TIC' using the command "toidi" to be translated as "ignore" and to be functionally used to refocus the dog from fixing on some dog obtuse mental midget who by the accident of mere existence and miserable dog control and management could cause a bad outcome between dogs.

That was fun.

Mike, somewhat in that train of thought I taught my first Kerry Blue to "shake". It was always a trip when someone would tell him "Shake" and he shook his whole body like he was drying off.
Easy to do. He was a show dog and got bathed regularly. When I finished I just held on to him with one hand on his back and when I let go I simply said "shake", then gave a treat. That was 30 yrs ago and probably the beginning of my "motivational" training. You just didn't treat dogs back then.
The verbal word means whatever you want it to.

I like it.

I am going to be teaching the "place" command to my dogs. the word place will mean to get between my legs immediately, lay down and stay there.
RIght now when I want my dogs to go and rest, I just tell them, go rest, no play. (they are a wild bunch) they find a place to lay down and rest.
When I come home and open the door, or my husband comes home from riding his bike or walking, and he opens the door, they are to immediately run to their mat and lay down and wait there until released. Other times when I just want them on their mat I say mat and they all run to each of their mats. We sometimes play a game where I tell them mat and then mark, and they run back and forth from their mat to their mark (right now their mark is a large saucer that you put under plants to catch the water.) They like this and it really gets some of their stored energy out of their little bodies.

I am interested in finding out the stages of training those of you did to get your dogs to go between your legs and lay down. Did you lure them first, how did you begin training them to "place" themselves between your legs.
Thanks sharon