My bindi girl has always done outstanding in learning and performing her behaviors. In the last 3 weeks, she has decided that she can't really remember behaviors she has known for years, and then a few minutes later she will do it. There are not major distractions, I have not poisoned a cue or done anything adversive to her. She is a very soft dog and I do not correct her with jerks on leashes but instead ask for a behavior she knows, a different behavior and then go back to the other one.
She has had a lot of training lately, and I am wondering if she is just tired of it. ALso, I have decided to cut the training time down and use part of her food for her treats because she has gained some weight, not a lot, since we have been training so much.
Has anyone had this happen before? and what can I do to change the situation?
Love sharon

Sharon, how old is Bindi? I know many dogs (like humans) go through a stage during the teenage months where they seem to forget everything they've learned. If she's going through that stage of life then it's primarily a matter of temporarily going back to square one and reviewing what she knows.

If it's not that, then temporarily cutting back on the training and possibly teaching her some new, fun for her activity would get her back on track.

Don't forget any training treats shuld be counted as part of her daily food intake. We often tend to forget that.

If your correction is to do a different thing maybe as she is a bit tired does not want to do it. Lack of motivation.

I don't have a soft dog but a firm no and ask for the same thing. Or if it is really bag, it is some time off.

Consider the possibility that, being a softer dog, "over-training syndrome" could manifest itself more quickly and subtly than in other dogs.
My dog, who has always loved training, is starting to show some avoidance and is refusing some behaviors that she was always motivated for. I strongly suspect that she is starting to feel over-trained.

I think you are all right. Bindi is not a teenager she is about 6 ish, not sure, rescue dog. She has been trained a lot lately and with this course I am taking more quickly than we usually move.
I have decided to give her some time off, train my other dogs, and just have fun with her for the rest of this week. She is a soft dog, and a great dog she has never done anything like this.She is usually doing anything to please me. Thanks for your advise, I am taking it and applying it.
Sharon and her pups, bindi, cody, terra.

I was reading these good answers and also thinking .... you know what? It can't hurt to see what happens with some breaks in training. Maybe that's the one thing to try that is extremely unlikely to do any harm to the training so far or to your relationship.

I'm not a professional trainer but I've found that my "very soft" girl needs a break from training every once in awhile.

Once a two weeks or so, we stop all training and go different places and just have fun and play for two or three days. I find once she has this little break, she's refreshed and ready to go back and train again. I find it's a nice little break for me too.

Yes, we have sundays off where we do no dog training and saturday used to be our game day. I realize now that I have lost sight of game day and just playing. I went to the free videos and refreshed my mind and heart with the overtraining video. My girl and I do not do a lot of physical work but we do lots of new behavior work. I am sad that I lost sight of this for my girl. She is such a great little girl. In the picture that comes up when I sign off, she is the dog in the middle of my other two pups.
Today I am going to train my other two dogs and maybe do a couple of minutes of something with her and then we are going to play outside, she loves it when I take her outside and play with her. I haven't done that much since I have been sick. I am grateful for all of your advise and for this site. I have been coming here for ...I think about 5 years or so and I have loved it. And everyone is so supportive and helpful.
So, I am hoping Bindi will be feeling better soon and won't hate training because of it. In case she needs a longer break, I am beginning to train one of my other dogs some behaviors in case I need her for my final in August.

Thanks again. Bindi will be very happy. And I am very grateful to all of you. Love, sharon and her pups, Terra, Bindi, and Cody.

Bindi is a rescue dog and a very soft dog that I rescued when she was about one year old. If I correct her during training she shuts down and is worried she will make a mistake and just plays it safe by not doing anything. So, I do not correct her in training, unless she did something aggressive, but I can't see that happening, she is very, very sweet. If i do not want her to do something, all I have to do is to shake my head -no, and that is enough for her, she comes right to me and is very submissive.
My cody man is a different little guy, he gets so crazy and intense when training. He is not a soft dog, but I do not correct him in training either,, I usually break things down into smaller chunks when he makes a mistake and we begin again. I can verbally correct him when he is doing something crazy in the house and he will come to me and sit by me and then he is off. He is a character.
My Terra is different all together, she is a very intense dog and can really get carried away and bark and bark when training. I deal with her differently than my other dogs. Each has their own temperment. Terra is very smart and performs her behaviors so quick and sharp, I love it.
Anyway, sorry going on an on. Thanks again, for your advise. sharon. and her pups

bindi is about 5-6 not sure, since she is a rescue dog, they didn't know. She is not a dog who rebels, she is always very obedient.
sharon