MACS wrote:Nope... turns out we're both hard-headed and neither one of us wants to listen. HA!
He's good with sit and down. Adora taught him how to shake. His "stay" is still sketchy, but getting better. Still pulling the leash, but that's slowly getting better. Doesn't listen well while distracted... by anything. He's learning impulse control with his food... I can set it down and he won't touch it until I say it's okay. Unless I walk out of view...
From everything I read this isn't a process that takes weeks... it takes months of consistency. *shrug*
We'll see...
Leash training; I had a Great Dane years ago, playing tug of war with a leash is just fun to the dog The book about the breed said to use a choker chain, fitted sungly around the back of the head so that it bears on the back of the skull more than the neck. This signals the dog and doesn't choke them. You hold a short leash directly above the dogs neck with no slack. To leash train a dog, it pretty simple, you start walking, when the dog goes left, you give a tug on the leash and go right, when the dog goes right, you go left. It will require a sharp jerk on the leash, but pretty soon the dog will understand the program. I could just lay the leash on the Dane's shoulder and she would follow me.
