Alex Madsen Webboard User Reg: 02-16-2007
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My dog currently knows his basic sit, down, stay, and come commands in English. I've been working with him as far as releasing an object or barking in German. Is it too late to change command he already knows to German or Czech?
Also, he's about 5 months, and I know it's a bit too early to work with stay (which I stray away from most of the time) but is it too early to work with him as far as barking on command? Thanks for all the help.
Ali: i changed my dogs to german commands and things went quite easily. it works best if you already have hand signals associated, because you can use those as an additional prompt.. and start from scratch, no corrections for quite a while.
RE: stay... well, i started on my dog quite young, probably about 7 months, but i started with very short durations. others might have a different opinion on this though.
Sandy Moore Webboard User Reg: 07-25-2006
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Ali, I don't know if the following is THE way to change from English to another language, but it's what I did and it works. I haven't seen any negative repercusions from it. I did not want to start from the beginning of training with using a different command for everything my pup already knew.
So this is what I did (one example but used with other commands as well): the "down", he knew "down" so I would say "down" and "platz" together (down, platz). Then said "good down, good platz". After 3 or 4 times consecutive times, I dropped the "down", just said "platz" and he downed. Then a few more times of just saying platz. Now he goes down whether I say down or platz. I'm not dropping the English commands, just teaching him 2 commands for the same thing. He's not confused by it at all.
I wouldn't mind adding a third language, like Czech, to the mix. It goes to show that a dog can learn several different words for the same action.
My wife has a papillion that listens equaly (bad ) to Dutch, Spanish and French spoken seperately or mingled forinstance for sitting in front it can be something like devand- sientate (french-spanish) and the little one does it (when she feels like it)
If you've trained your dog with hand signals it doesn't matter what you say. If you just start using the new word with the hand signal the dog will pick up on it very quickly. They read your intention much more than what you say.
I agree that hand signals work great. One time a friend was playing with my dog and telling her to sit, down and all of that. The funny thing was my dog would look to me first after being told a command and I would give the hand signal behind my friend, that's when the dog complied with the command
My dog knows our cats by name. Tell her which cat, and she'll find the right one. One cat has several nicknames, and you can tell the dog any one of 4 or 5 different names and she looks for the same cat.
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