Working on pack structure with our lab puppy, it became crystal clear to my wife and I that the consistency needed to establish the pack structure has to come from both of us as we must share the responsibilities. This involves using accepted verbal commands, responding to gates and doors the same etc.
Our objective is to have a "flying squirrel" (aka Frisbee) trained dog. Can two people work together as handlers through basic obedience and into retrieving? Both of us would like to be able to handle our lab with equal respect and obedience. Is this possible?
I can't answer this for you. In our household, I do all of the training, but my wife is also a handler and reinforces the training when she's with the dog.
He has equal respect for both of us and we have not had any problems.
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My husband and I do this Andrew. But I have noticed that if one person does more training than the other he is more reliable with the person who has spent more time.
In the beginning my husband did more of the training and Max would be better with him. Now I do slightly more and I've noticed Max watching me, almost as if to check that he should obey, when my husband does training with him.
So if you are both consistent and each spend the same amount of time with your dog it should be fine. I guess part of it is learning to do the commands with the change. Like moving to a different room and teaching them they have to do it there too, they have to learn that the command still applies with a different person.
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One handler or two?
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