Tuesday, January 18, 2011
New Training Tip! It RLLY WURKS!
This one is for Heather:
People will give you all kinds of advice on how to train your dog, how to discipline your dog, etc. Some people are forceful and mean, hitting their dogs, yelling at their dogs, or putting their dogs in complete fear of them. Some are way too nice and let their dogs do anything they want. And then there are those who will tell you calm, assertive ways to get your dog to stop doing what you don’t want your dog to do.
But I just found a sure fire, instantaneous way to get my dog, Shasta, to stop doing what I don’t want him to do to the point that he will put himself in the crate for a time out. It requires no vocalization on my part, no hand gestures, no getting up and moving him....none of that.
All it requires is one breath of air.
I was sitting here, at the computer, reading some pretty funny stuff when Shasta came over to me and startled me by putting his wet nose on my leg. Now, I also have cats. And sometimes the cats will climb all over me like a piece of furniture or get up in my face when I’m in bed, trying to sleep. Because I don’t want to move, I just blow in their face and they move.
Out of habit, when Shasta put his wet nose on my leg, I turned my head towards him and blew on his face.
He recoiled in absolute horror!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Needless to say, I had to test this. I called him back over, patted his head a few times and blew in his face again. He backed up a few steps, staring at me intently like I had just threatened to cut his head off. I just stared at him. As I stared, he backed up more and more and more and finally went to his crate.
Now he doesn’t want to come over when I call him.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Obviously I need to correct that and stop fucking with him but I have now found a fantastic solution to get him to mind himself in the house.
