Teach My Dog to Come Part 2
Please read part one of this article: Teach My Dog to Come
Dogs often have poor generalization skills. The environment, your body language, your tone of voice, and other factors are all an important part of the cue to come when called for your dog. You must now “take your show on the road.
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They are constantly learning!
Though not all the right things! Ours is finding new places to hide - in his old age he just doesn't like being left out of the house when we go out - so now we have to play hide and seek to get him! Good blog.
Does he have to be left outside?
Can he stay inside when you leave... perhaps confined to the kitchen or bathroom or something?
If not, try making going outside when you leave extremely rewarding. Get a kong and stuff it with wet dog food and freeze it, or fill it with Peanut Butter or Kong Stuffer. Buy an everlasting type of treat, new extra large biscuit, etc. Make sure it's a safe item, something consumable or indestructible. And only offer the dog the item outside when you're going to leave him out.
My now-deceased mixed breed dog turned into a 50 pound sack of potatoes whenever we were leaving for work and had to put her in her kennel. She would crawl under the coffee table and go limp. I started giving her goodies in her crate and she became a dog that would dash to her kennel on command. Eventually I only had to give her a plain biscuit in there, but the association between the crate and great stuff had been made.
Good luck!
Brenna
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