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Ok, so I have two questions perhaps someone could share some advice. The first is about walking my dog on a lead and not having her pull. First off, I know and understand it takes time and practice and that's what I've been doing but wanted to know if there are any suggestions from you guys.
Here's the scenario.
I walk with Patty on my left side and hold the lead in the middle (roughly) with my left hand and then far end on my right hand. If she goes ahead of me of pulls I do a 180 (turning counter clock wise, so turning into her but not touching her) and once I'm facing the other direction I say Heel, pass the lead around my back so that patty comes back to my left side and I praise her once she is beside me.
Now this works fairly well however I seem to have "situation trained" (is that what they call it?) because we worked on the same route so she seems to that very well on that walking route but the minute we take a new route its like all the work we've done is out the window? Is it just a matter of changing up the routes and doing the same work I've done above? or do you continue on the same route until she has loose lead walking down very well on that route and move on to new routes from there?
On the route she's accustome to if we don't meet anyone or anydogs her loose lead walking varies...sometimes we can walk a couple of minutes with out having to correct, other times we only go 5-10 seconds before correction. SHe's not consistent yet. Also this brings me to another point...sometimes if the corrections are to short in intervals she seems to think we're playing a game?! When I turn and say Heel, she runs back to my left side very quick passing me (sometimes even jumping up and down) and looking at me waiting with what seems to be joy to turn around again. lol
On her regular route, if she sees a person or another dog she pulls to get there faster. Do I continue with the technic I've been using if this arises? One day it worked well. we saw a girl couple hundred feet away so I did a 180 when she pulled...walking away from her...then we went back and forth for a little bit until she seemed to understand I wanted her by my side, and when we finally walked by the girl patty was by my side and very pleasant. However another day we saw another person and the situation played out this way : when I did the 180 patty continued to face the other direction fighting against me to get towards the people however I walked away from them...and it took her a good 20 seconds or more before she gave in and walked towards me...when we finally made 180 back towards the people she pulled again and we repeated the above cycle. It was a pulling mess. lol
This past week end we went to a public park. I know there's lots of new people, animals and smells but we went for a walk around the lake and the whole walk (probably about 15 minutes) she pulled. I mean the "trying to dig claws into the paved walkeway" to get ahead. Pulling with all she had. She was weezing 30 seconds into her walk and it hardly ceased during the whole walk. Even if there was no one around us she was still pulling as if she was trying to get to someone or something. What do you do in that situation? DO you apply whatever technic you usually use to try and get her not to pull?
Wow, that was a long first question.
Second question. Barking. She used to Bark when someone would come to the house (knock at the door, ring the bell, or if she heard them outside). It wasn't crazy barking or anything just like one of two loud barks then she'd go to the door and give a bark here and there until either I got in the kitchen and got her to lay down or the person came in the house. I figure that was a bad habit so I went and got a spray water bottle. Stood in front of the door with her looking at me and I knocked on the door (hand behind my back) and she gave a bark when the knock came, so I sprayed her with the water. when she stopped I praised her on the quietness. Waited a couple minutes did it again and she gave a kind of half bark as it to say I'm gonna bark, wait, something happened last time I did that so I better stop. Then I rang the doorbell, and she barked, I sprayed. Went through this a couple times and she seems alright but how can I apply this outside? I only put her outside alone for 5 minutes do she can go pee. I put her on the lead attatched outside but as soon as she sees a person walking or something she barks. By the time I get outside it would be to late to correct her (you're supposed to correct when the bad actions happens right?) plus she sees me coming, hears me coming. Suggestions?
Here's the scenario.
I walk with Patty on my left side and hold the lead in the middle (roughly) with my left hand and then far end on my right hand. If she goes ahead of me of pulls I do a 180 (turning counter clock wise, so turning into her but not touching her) and once I'm facing the other direction I say Heel, pass the lead around my back so that patty comes back to my left side and I praise her once she is beside me.
Now this works fairly well however I seem to have "situation trained" (is that what they call it?) because we worked on the same route so she seems to that very well on that walking route but the minute we take a new route its like all the work we've done is out the window? Is it just a matter of changing up the routes and doing the same work I've done above? or do you continue on the same route until she has loose lead walking down very well on that route and move on to new routes from there?
On the route she's accustome to if we don't meet anyone or anydogs her loose lead walking varies...sometimes we can walk a couple of minutes with out having to correct, other times we only go 5-10 seconds before correction. SHe's not consistent yet. Also this brings me to another point...sometimes if the corrections are to short in intervals she seems to think we're playing a game?! When I turn and say Heel, she runs back to my left side very quick passing me (sometimes even jumping up and down) and looking at me waiting with what seems to be joy to turn around again. lol
On her regular route, if she sees a person or another dog she pulls to get there faster. Do I continue with the technic I've been using if this arises? One day it worked well. we saw a girl couple hundred feet away so I did a 180 when she pulled...walking away from her...then we went back and forth for a little bit until she seemed to understand I wanted her by my side, and when we finally walked by the girl patty was by my side and very pleasant. However another day we saw another person and the situation played out this way : when I did the 180 patty continued to face the other direction fighting against me to get towards the people however I walked away from them...and it took her a good 20 seconds or more before she gave in and walked towards me...when we finally made 180 back towards the people she pulled again and we repeated the above cycle. It was a pulling mess. lol
This past week end we went to a public park. I know there's lots of new people, animals and smells but we went for a walk around the lake and the whole walk (probably about 15 minutes) she pulled. I mean the "trying to dig claws into the paved walkeway" to get ahead. Pulling with all she had. She was weezing 30 seconds into her walk and it hardly ceased during the whole walk. Even if there was no one around us she was still pulling as if she was trying to get to someone or something. What do you do in that situation? DO you apply whatever technic you usually use to try and get her not to pull?
Wow, that was a long first question.
Second question. Barking. She used to Bark when someone would come to the house (knock at the door, ring the bell, or if she heard them outside). It wasn't crazy barking or anything just like one of two loud barks then she'd go to the door and give a bark here and there until either I got in the kitchen and got her to lay down or the person came in the house. I figure that was a bad habit so I went and got a spray water bottle. Stood in front of the door with her looking at me and I knocked on the door (hand behind my back) and she gave a bark when the knock came, so I sprayed her with the water. when she stopped I praised her on the quietness. Waited a couple minutes did it again and she gave a kind of half bark as it to say I'm gonna bark, wait, something happened last time I did that so I better stop. Then I rang the doorbell, and she barked, I sprayed. Went through this a couple times and she seems alright but how can I apply this outside? I only put her outside alone for 5 minutes do she can go pee. I put her on the lead attatched outside but as soon as she sees a person walking or something she barks. By the time I get outside it would be to late to correct her (you're supposed to correct when the bad actions happens right?) plus she sees me coming, hears me coming. Suggestions?