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I tried that site this afternoon, at the same time you did - but the administrator "kicked me off"
I was going to ask those questions there so I didn't bore everyone else with my ignorance.

Thanks everyone

Time before distance before distraction.

Make her sitz, stay in front of her for 5 seconds then relese "Ok" or whatever your relese command is then treat. Repete until she can sit for 1 min with you directly in front. Then sitz, take one step back and wait 5 seconds, relese and treat. then so on and so on... before you know it she will stay until you relese, no matter what you do.

He has never done anything to hurt her - he was having her platz before taking her out of the crate and sitz by the door before she went out, she peed all over the floor. Classic submission piss...this is a calming signal a dog will send to authoritive figure to try and calm the other party down, be it animal or human. Others include yawning, quick look away from direct eye contact, half circle walk around, lowered to the side head position, little nose licking (Dog licks the tip of own nose with the tip of his own tongue, making that smacking sound) .

Your hubby needs to learn to control the dog through respect not fear.

O.k. I suppose this can be learned from the video?
half walk around- this morning when she was doing so well, one thing she did, when she came and sat was face away from me. Is this telling me something? How shall I correct this? I expect she should sit in front of me facing ne.

The calming signals you won't find on teh video, that's just canine behaviour study, the rest you will.

Sitting away from you.. I would think the dog is saying "Your boring Mom, have something more exciting to keep my focus please"

You indicated that my husband was being over bearing(my words) I observed this and even though he as I said before did not harm her - he was very opressive with his tone and demeanor.
The video came in and the whole family has watched it through twice so far. Praise was definately an area that needed help, for myself as well as my husband - my older son, Bradley had it down pretty good. The results of improved praise have been amazing.
I agree, with your last post about "mom being boring", since I have practiced more enthusiastic praise, things improved right away.
She is very smart and I think has been trained well. Does any one know the German equivalent of the stay command? She obeys the "sitz or platz" but thinks she can getup right away. Since viewing the video - I've been using "good sit-stay" - and releasing her with "o.k." It is working - but I wonder if there is a term she already knows and understands.
I read elsewhere on the board, that females tend to test their position in the pack more frequently than males. In a prevous post you mentioned having her go through doors and hallways last, this was not being done. So now I have the issue of her thinking she is dominant over my 2 1/2 year old son. "pushing past him in the hall or other tight place" Other than having her sit while we enter or exit can you make other suggestions for dealing with this? I would like her to be aware of the smaller children and not be so "pushy".
Are you aware of a good source for the German commands such as retrieve and other practical things that she probably already knows?
Thank you so much for all your help.

Sorry ... I just read Lonny B.'s post again about the step by step of stay and realized he answered my question well enough for now about that.

Lonny:

"Your hubby needs to learn to control the dog through respect not fear."

That is such an important concept Lonny! Well said.