Ok, about two weeks ago I purchased a 2 year old gsd. The dog had been started in bite work (bites the sleeve in prey drive), and in narcotics...The dog had also been obed trained...Well, the dog does great with his obed here at home and is crazy for his ball...The problem im having is that all he wants to do is stay in his crate...If were not playing etc outside he will run to the door and then run straight for his crate while inside...Today, I took him to a softball game, small crowd, and kept him back from all the people, just wanted him to see lots of new things and people...When we got there he kept putting his tail between his legs and kept pulling to go back to my vehicle. Showed no interest in his ball He has also acted like this before while at a friend of mine's house....Do you think this is a problem or is it just because the dog is new to me...I had planned on working the dog more on his narcotics and his bite work but now seem worried
Questions,
Who trained this dog? And you purchased the animal for narcotics work as well as protection? Hmmmm.
Anyways, Elaine is right, the dog is still acclimating to new circumstances give him a little time.
But what I would start working up in the mean time would be a new way for the dog to look at the world and how you see it. Retraining a view and slant of life outside of training (even if we know there is no such thing as outside of training, the dog doesn't). Take the vocabulary that the dog was trained with and throw it out the window. Substituting your own words (different) for the known commands is easy training but does not carry the same baggage from a past you had no control over. In that way you can show the dog how easy and unassuming every day life is and still carry on with his work ethic.
If my dog isn't learning, I'm doing something wrong.
Randy
"I had planned on working the dog more on his narcotics and his bite work" Didn't say protection...I dont think so anyways.
What im saying is that i wanted to do more training on each of the things that he had been started on....Im just concerned that he might have some prob's with socialization..Guess time will tell..Will just have to give him more time..Any more suggestions on bonding with a new "adult" dog
New vocabularies do really marvelous things, in the public sphere as well as the training ground and is a good bonding agent with a new handler. As an example try sit in place of platz (or platz instead of sit) and watch how easily he learns and how differently he responds to you. It's not to be done all at once, just one step at a time. He can still be worked, but he can also be reintroducted (socialized) to the world at large, one step at a time.
If my dog isn't learning, I'm doing something wrong.
Randy
Of course Brent, I meant Down instead of platz, etc. I don't normally use the German commands and I got a little twisted around, sorry. The basic idea though is that in the end to use a different vocabulary (Your own). Not to completely confuse the dog by using a previously known command to mean something else.
Hope this is less muddy.
Randy
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