I could strangle my husband...

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Last night I spent nearly ten minutes trying to get Emma to do a "down" she kept giving me this wierd ground slapping behavior where she'd throw her front feet down (like a bow) and then pop back up and spin in circles... it was useless and manic

she also would NOT calm down. It was bizzarre and frustrating...I finally asked for som'thing else she knew then fed her. Not knowing what to think

so today we are outside and Emma brings my DH the ball...he says "down" and she does that "stupid" behavior and he throws the ball...:yikes:

Turns out they had done this for about an hour yesterday. I brought him inside and demonstrated that her down was now gone and I'd have to start over.

has this ever happend to you guys? Should I use a whole new cue word when I reteach this? arrrrg!
 
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Hahaha, I feel your pain. I spent several days shaping Sienna to "sit pretty" - nice, calm, with her paws tucked against her chest. I barely had it on cue, and made the mistake of showing it to my roommate. In 5 minutes, "pretty" became Sienna dancing on her hind legs, and reaching crazily for the sky with her front paws. And my roommate telling her she's so good and so smart!! I told the dog, Pup, that's not pretty. That's ugly. :D Sigh.

Lesson learned. I re-trained the correct version as "beg." IMO, it's easier to change cues, especially if the dog knows the behavior already. Maybe use "drop" instead of "down." And don't tell your husband the new cue, LOL!

I think it makes a lot of sense to have separate cues, especially when you're trying to get precision (if you're competing for instance), but the dog will be interacting with family, etc. Teach common cues for the "general public", then for precision, use a word that only you know. Sit, down, and come can become...hmm, I don't have one for sit, but down = drop, flop or platz, and come = front.
 
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New cue word would be easiest.

For some reason, Strider took the longest time to stop pulling on his leash. Months. I tried every single technique ever.

Then one day I caught my husband taking him for a walk...with his skateboard....on a collar and leash.:madgo: Aside from potential neck damage, it totally ruined any loose leash training I was doing. I ended up having to get him a totally different collar, different thickness, material, everything, and buying a harness for the skateboard walks. Oi.
 
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I wouldn't say I want to strangle Travis, lol, but it's frusterating all the same. Regis used to be perfect at all his tricks but as of late, he will do the wrong one and because it's "funny" or "cute" he will get a treat for doing the wrong trick on the wrong command. Now he does this CONSTANTLY.

It's upsetting after all the work we both put into all of his tricks, now they are all screwed up ):
 
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thanks everyone its good to know Iam not alone..


she "had" three cues for down...a hand signal, a foot tap and the word...all three poisoned.

The most frustrating thing was how nutso she became when I said the word. Turns out he was basically holding the tennis ball (which she is obsessed with) and saying "down" over and over plus the hand signal and foot tap...so now when you say the word she doesn't just do the wrong behavior, she goes bonkers thinking a tennis ball is about to appear.

I like the "drop" word...I was wracking my brain all night for a new word that makes sence...I think i'll use that one.

we had this proofed and everything....practiced in public places etc...months of work and now hes like "well I just wont train the dogs anymore" which I don't want either (they don't listen to him AT ALL) I was just like "please pay attention to what your actually seeing, because I work hard on this stuff" but hes mad at me now for being frustrated... *sigh*
 
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Criosphynx said:
we had this proofed and everything....practiced in public places etc...months of work and now hes like "well I just wont train the dogs anymore" which I don't want either (they don't listen to him AT ALL) I was just like "please pay attention to what your actually seeing, because I work hard on this stuff" but hes mad at me now for being frustrated... *sigh*
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^^^This is me and Robert, 100%. He has said that to me verbatim more than once. So he got his own dog...guess how well behaved his dog is? :rolleyes:

The most time consuming part of dog training, IME, is training the husband.
 
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LMAO everyone!


I do own an e collar...think I can get it on him without much of a struggle? I'm sure it will fit.
 
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Romy said:
^^^This is me and Robert, 100%. He has said that to me verbatim more than once. So he got his own dog...guess how well behaved his dog is? :rolleyes:

The most time consuming part of dog training, IME, is training the husband.
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Oh we went this route already but my story is worse...we had to return the dog. It was horrible....yeah yeah I'll take her running...I'll train the heck out of her...so he adopts this drivey, young, shepard mix I didn't really want...but I only agreed to because he was going to do the bulk of its care....riiight...he did squat with her..absolutely nothing...then his job changed and even if he wanted to care for her, he couldn't.

It wasn't fair to the dog...I couldn't stand her, and she was way past my skill level at the time, so we rehomed her. He gets very little say now when picking a dog.


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Oh we went this route already but my story is worse...we had to return the dog. It was horrible....yeah yeah I'll take her running...I'll train the heck out of her...so he adopts this drivey, young, shepard mix that I only agreed to because he was going to do the bulk of its care....riiight.

It wasn't fair to the dog...I couldn't stand her, and at the time she was way out of my skill level, so we rehomed her.
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We have a drivey young griffon. I love him, he's totally not a dog I would have picked, but he's nice anyway. The big difference in our situation is that we live on acreage with ocean beach, so can take the crazy little guy diving until he's exhausted every day. And with minimal effort I can take him hunting in the field. At least I can't complain that he picked a bad breed for our location, lol. This is griffon paradise. If we had lived anywhere else, like an apartment or something I could totally see it getting to a point where it's just not fair to the dog anymore.

Oh man! One time he bought a bark collar for Charlie that was supposed to gradually increase zapping power as they bark. I suggested he try it out before putting on his dog. So he did. :rofl1:

Two barks was all it took to knock him to the ground. He couldn't speak for half an hour. Needless to say, the collar was returned.
 
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thats what I need...a collar that stims harder each time he trains the dogs wrong.....


"down..ow"

"down..OW"

"down..OW!!"
 
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Sadly, yes. My BF was deprogrammed most of my training cues simply with food. If he's not around, they're fine, but with his presence, I've had to teach new words that he doesn't hear and therefore can't use incorrectly!

Biggest one is: Good girl(s)! when they bark at/for him. I told him he was teaching them to bark, but he doesn't seem to care. I've had to switch to "That's my girl" for my praise word. "Good girl" has been removed from my vocab ... :(
 
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The worst I've had to deal with is people throwing out a command 100 times until Juno finally does it. My brother will come over and play fetch with Juno and he makes Juno sit before he throws the toy (as do I), but he'll go "sitsitsitsitsitsitsit" without even giving her time to process that he just told her to sit. Eventually she sits and he throws the toy, and all I can think is, "great, the command is no longer sit, it's now sitsitsitsitsitsitsit."

Otherwise I do 99% of the interacting with Juno, so there's really no time for anyone to screw up the commands she knows haha.
 
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Criosphynx said:
Last night I spent nearly ten minutes trying to get Emma to do a "down" she kept giving me this wierd ground slapping behavior where she'd throw her front feet down (like a bow) and then pop back up and spin in circles... it was useless and manic

she also would NOT calm down. It was bizzarre and frustrating...I finally asked for som'thing else she knew then fed her. Not knowing what to think

so today we are outside and Emma brings my DH the ball...he says "down" and she does that "stupid" behavior and he throws the ball...:yikes:

Turns out they had done this for about an hour yesterday. I brought him inside and demonstrated that her down was now gone and I'd have to start over.

has this ever happend to you guys? Should I use a whole new cue word when I reteach this? arrrrg!
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LOL My bf does this all the time with "down" and "off" If the dog is jumping or on the couch and needs to get OFF then we use the word OFF but for some reason my bf cannot keep this straight...he will tell the dogs (while on the couch) "DOWN" and then they lay down ON THE COUCH! He also tells Harvick "down" when he is suppose to say "go lay down" when he is begging for food, so Harvick thinks he is going to get food for doing "down". :rolleyes:
 
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LOL My bf does this all the time with "down" and "off" If the dog is jumping or on the couch and needs to get OFF then we use the word OFF but for some reason my bf cannot keep this straight...he will tell the dogs (while on the couch) "DOWN" and then they lay down ON THE COUCH! He also tells Harvick "down" when he is suppose to say "go lay down" when he is begging for food, so Harvick thinks he is going to get food for doing "down". :rolleyes:
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OMG he does this too!

Luckily the dogs just read his body language and I don't think they are listening...

This one I've told him a hundred times...its not down its OFF!
 
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I have officially banned my bf from even speaking to the dogs in a training manner until he can learn himself LOL
 
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