Dallas is now six months old. She is doing great with her obedience training and class (now in our 8th week.) However; when I have her in a sit/stay (we're almost up to 2 minutes)and I walk away from her (either on leash or off leash about 15 feet) she will slide to a down/stay and is perfectly content to be in a down.
It is my understanding that she should be obeying the sit/stay command and not breaking the command
by laying down. I repeatedly put her back to a sit/stay only to have her again lay down.
Am I expecting too much of her at this age? Any thoughts, comments or help?
PS..BTW..we're down to a drool for the truck rides!
I think you called it... 6 months is young still... I would be working on adding distraction within the 2 min time frame, this will keep her alert and not wanting to lay down, and will proof well for the level she is at now.... guaranteed she will not do 2 min with good distractions... so it will keep you buisy for awhile longer.
You don't want to use compulsion now... use her own mind against her to get what you want by keeping her alert with distractions. The result will make you happy in the end I'm sure <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
Leute mögen Hunde, aber Leute LIEBEN ausgebildete Hunde!
Although I agree that EVENTUALLY a dog should not break a command until the handler issues the next command, I think that getting a 6 month old pup to hold a sit for 2 minutes is pretty damn good and if all she does is go into a down then I'd be happy as hell. I think requiring a dog to sit that long is silly anyway.(not a knock on you Barbara, just a general comment) Anything more than a minute they should be in a down.IMO
Chuck..I'm happy as all get out with Dallas and her education to this point. Ya know..I started her the day she came home at 8weeks old with very basic commands as an everyday routine. I hope I didn't sound like I wasn't happy with her progress to this point; as it's quite the opposite. I just don't want to expect too much nor under-estimate given her age. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I'll agree with Chuck here.. that is good 2 min, I only get about 30 seconds of "Pure" focus, but I relese around that time so we always end in success.
Leute mögen Hunde, aber Leute LIEBEN ausgebildete Hunde!
I think you are moving away to far, to fast. If the others are moving across the room, let them. Training a dog is easy. Correcting bad habits sucks. I used a system of eye hooks in my basement. A long line went straight up from the dogs collar to the eye hook in the cealing and then to another helper. When the dog went down,the helper gave a quick pop without voice command. The reason I used a helper is because I didn't want the dog to associate being poped with any movement on my part. It just happened cause he tried to go down without permission. Steady it at home first then add the distractions at class.
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