 Re: Please Stop Barking!!!
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#191115 - 04/17/2008 11:35 PM |
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Hand signals are great, because look at the distance from which you can give it!
My deaf dog, gone now, made me learn hand signals (even though she was very good at reading lips, having gone deaf slowly). Then I learned that hand signals, like clickers, have a nie unchanging "tone." It's hard to scream "SIT!" with a hand signal at a dog who is driving you crazy that day. 
That's funny.
So far, I don't think I will have a need to give most commands from a distance as she is nearly always right at my heels because of the tethering. And, that is the first best thing I learned from this site.
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Re: Please Stop Barking!!!
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#191116 - 04/17/2008 11:36 PM |
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I'm afraid I'm too uncoordinated to use a clicker.
I have been practicing in the bathroom and other no-dog places. I don't want to fumble and make my timing worse instead of better. I will keep it always in my hand when I am doing a new command.
It's easy. I am uncoordinated, but if the treats are in a bait pouch or a nearby dish, the leash is in my right hand, and the clicker is in my left, then it's a cinch. I worked on it only for about 5 minutes before it was totally comfortable! Even the treat can be fished out and given easily from the same hand that's holding the little clicker.
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Re: Please Stop Barking!!!
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#191117 - 04/17/2008 11:39 PM |
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I have been practicing in the bathroom and other no-dog places. I don't want to fumble and make my timing worse instead of better. I will keep it always in my hand when I am doing a new command.
How did you get the bathroom to be a no-dog place. I took the tethering literally so now even if she is just on her drag line she thinks she has to go into the bathroom with me.
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Re: Please Stop Barking!!!
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#191118 - 04/17/2008 11:40 PM |
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...she is nearly always right at my heels because of the tethering. And, that is the first best thing I learned from this site.
Tethering the dog to the new owner has SO much going for it. I'm with you. Not just potty-training, but so much more. And not just puppies, but new adoptees, too.
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Re: Please Stop Barking!!!
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#191119 - 04/17/2008 11:43 PM |
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I have been practicing in the bathroom and other no-dog places. I don't want to fumble and make my timing worse instead of better. I will keep it always in my hand when I am doing a new command.
How did you get the bathroom to be a no-dog place. I took the tethering literally so now even if she is just on her drag line she thinks she has to go into the bathroom with me.
Well, you could practice in the tub or shower while she waits on the bath mat. She won't know what you're doing. You could use guest soap as the treat and a soap-on-a-rope for the leash!
Think how easy it'll be when it's NOT all slippery and soapy after you learn in the shower.
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Re: Please Stop Barking!!!
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#191120 - 04/17/2008 11:47 PM |
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Connie, you are so right about the tethering.
Mine still isn't 100% on the potty training, but when she starts backsliding, I go back to tethering 24/7 so to speak, but more than that, it is super rare for her to not come to me when I call.
Now, I haven't proofed that and we haven't done it under any distraction except for in the house with my daughter and two year old grandson here but she always comes. The only time so far she will not come is if she finds barking at the door or barking at anything more interesting.
Do you mark come, too?
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Re: Please Stop Barking!!!
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Re: Please Stop Barking!!!
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#191124 - 04/18/2008 12:40 AM |
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There is really no command that I don't use markers to teach.
The recall (and drop it) is probably the most important command you will ever teach.
If you want to go over how you taught/are teaching the recall, that's fine. There are also many threads here on it. (RECALL would probably be the best search term.)
You can start right this minute to reinforce it by calling the dog (even tethered to you) for all good stuff. Dinner - recall. Game - recall. Petting and rubbing - recall. Walks, car rides, brushing (my dogs love brushing), and everything the dog loves - recall the dog for it.
And never use it and then correct (say, for slow coming). Teaching the recall is, for me, teaching the dog that he WANTS to hear his name called..... ears up, smiley face, eager trot to me .... because it means GOOD STUFF!
If you go over how you started (and that would be a new thread, of course), I betcha you can get it perfected.
Sounds like a litle proofing under distraction might be in order. 
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Re: Please Stop Barking!!!
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#191134 - 04/18/2008 07:11 AM |
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Teaching the recall is, for me, teaching the dog that he WANTS to hear his name called..... ears up, smiley face, eager trot to me .... because it means GOOD STUFF!
You know how many people have to say "treat" or "cookie" to get their dogs to come under distractions? Well, that's the response you want to have to the word "come." (only without the bag-shaking that seems to accompany it for some people! ) I think that helps people to understand exactly what the dog should be thinking when they hear that word...only great things that they don't want to miss by delaying or ignoring! 
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#192642 - 04/28/2008 11:19 AM |
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Read most of the posts and the link on the bark collar. How does it work if you want your dog to bark sometimes. I would be afraid I would forget to take it off when I really needed my dog to bark?
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