desertwife
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Hello, I really need advice with this. I have two eight month old sibling puppies (I've had since 8 weeks old) they are already over fifty pounds. One labrador who is five years old, who a neighbor gave to me because the dog would run away, shoot out his gate continuously come over here and had other behavior problems. I've had all these dogs (neutered males) about the same amount of time. I lost my two good old dogs last year from cancer so am starting over. I've taught these dogs many tricks and basic obedience, they work together in a group or even better alone. The lab will sometimes rebel in a group setting and I put him out and continue to work with the puppies with out him so he doesn't disrupt "the class" any more.
My problem is even though I have taught them ALL to sit and wait at the gate and not go through until I tell them to, sometimes by name, Buddy, Dakota "sit stay" LUKE GO, Dakota "STAY" Buddy go etc. all though they are excited it works. they know the rules. we have several gates here that keeps them on the property for our practice. Buddy, one puppy learned NOT to chase a rabbit while I'm walking him. the first time he saw a rabbit ahead of us I almost lost an arm and got a pretty bad Nylon burn through my palm. but the second time I saw it coming and prepared my self...he hit the end of the 22 foot lead and never tried that again.
Now, my real problem is the other day ALL three shot past me out of the front gate (dirt road no traffic, thank goodness) tuned me out completely and I had to chase them in the car to retrieve them a mile down the road. I'm sure Luke is the instigator here, but who knows? They all ignored me. I love them all so much...that day I almost hated them.
I have a neighbor who has three male Labradors who NEVER leave his yard for any reasons when he leaves the gate open and I asked if he trained them with electric or what. He said "every time they left I dragged them home beat the %#@% out of them and put them in the kennel" I don't know if that's true, when i see his wife I'll ask her. I've never hit one of my dogs ever but I must say, I did Imagine I would like to hide behind a tree and when they run out of that gate and ignore me I'd have a two by four in my hands and smack all three in the head all at once. Of course even if I did get that crazy I'm sure they'd just jump over it and keep going! Now, I know getting siblings was probably a bad idea, but they are family now. They listen most the time...unless there's something, almost anything really, more interesting than me. I brought them to the dog park, the outside, not the inside...just to keep the excitement around them 'till I get their attention. I don't want them to be wild like the park hooligans, but to listen to me. I've brought them individually to parking lots, farmers market, pet smart and they do wonderful. They know the words stop, wait, come, but will tune me out at the times i need them to listen most. I hope someone can help me with this.thanks for any advise, Linda:dogmad:
My problem is even though I have taught them ALL to sit and wait at the gate and not go through until I tell them to, sometimes by name, Buddy, Dakota "sit stay" LUKE GO, Dakota "STAY" Buddy go etc. all though they are excited it works. they know the rules. we have several gates here that keeps them on the property for our practice. Buddy, one puppy learned NOT to chase a rabbit while I'm walking him. the first time he saw a rabbit ahead of us I almost lost an arm and got a pretty bad Nylon burn through my palm. but the second time I saw it coming and prepared my self...he hit the end of the 22 foot lead and never tried that again.
Now, my real problem is the other day ALL three shot past me out of the front gate (dirt road no traffic, thank goodness) tuned me out completely and I had to chase them in the car to retrieve them a mile down the road. I'm sure Luke is the instigator here, but who knows? They all ignored me. I love them all so much...that day I almost hated them.
I have a neighbor who has three male Labradors who NEVER leave his yard for any reasons when he leaves the gate open and I asked if he trained them with electric or what. He said "every time they left I dragged them home beat the %#@% out of them and put them in the kennel" I don't know if that's true, when i see his wife I'll ask her. I've never hit one of my dogs ever but I must say, I did Imagine I would like to hide behind a tree and when they run out of that gate and ignore me I'd have a two by four in my hands and smack all three in the head all at once. Of course even if I did get that crazy I'm sure they'd just jump over it and keep going! Now, I know getting siblings was probably a bad idea, but they are family now. They listen most the time...unless there's something, almost anything really, more interesting than me. I brought them to the dog park, the outside, not the inside...just to keep the excitement around them 'till I get their attention. I don't want them to be wild like the park hooligans, but to listen to me. I've brought them individually to parking lots, farmers market, pet smart and they do wonderful. They know the words stop, wait, come, but will tune me out at the times i need them to listen most. I hope someone can help me with this.thanks for any advise, Linda:dogmad:
