Recently I agreed to foster female Malinois juvenile (about 1 year old) that had been found as a stray and placed in a local shelter. I'm fostering her for the Malinois Rescue.
It's been a while since I worked with a juvenile and it's been fun and rewarding.
She was not housetrained and that is almost solved now (less than a week to accomplish, with crate)
She had a shelter name but it was obvious that it meant nothing to her so gave her a better name with two syllables and long vowel sounds and starting to get recognition of the name.
Here's the first question. When teaching the Here/Come command and a new name should we not use the name and just say "Here" or say name and then command?
Second question. What's the best pathway to get to the Place command?
She is like many Mals, eager to please, lap dog, jumper and extremely attuned to physical body queues.
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Why don't you focus on name recognition (rewarding for attention when using her new name) then start with the 'here' command once the name recognition is good?
I taught 'crate' by using the crate as the feeding place then moved to a 'place' command once crate was solid. Place was also accomplished using a durable food treat like a stuffed kong bone that I wanted him to keep on the towel instead of smearing cream cheese across the laminate floor
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Kristin, if you hit "submit" twice, even if it hasn't done anything visible, it will post twice. Not sure if that's it, but I know from experience that I should never re-tap "submit" even if it seems like it didn't "hear" me.
Thanks to All. Name change solved. Now we are on to all the fun stuff, the jumping up, everything goes into the mouth, mouthing and the general young dog fun
If the dog is tethered to you it can't get in trouble.
That's usually for pups but it will still work great for an inexperienced or untrained dog.
Tethered = The pup/dog is on a leash and the leash is connected to you. That is usually for in the house bit it can also be used in the yard.
Pups/dogs don't make mistakes. Owners do.
"Let the trainer examine himself when the dog makes a mistake, or he does not understand the exercise, or fails in obedience, and let him ask "Where Am I at Fault"?
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Quote: Bob Scott
Quote: Max Von Stephanitz
"Let the trainer examine himself when the dog makes a mistake, or he does not understand the exercise, or fails in obedience, and let him ask "Where Am I at Fault"?
Words to live by! People get mad at the wrong animal too often imo
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