Stubborn! - Page 2

Hertsgirl · #11 (**permalink**) 09-01-2012, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Sled dog hotel

If you dont mind her in the bedroom, and just being on the bed is the problem,
have you thought about giving her her own bed on the floor, and training and reinforcing she can go/is to go on that? Other then that if she is already crate trained or has been, maybe start off with the crate in the bedroom near to the bed, get her to accept that as her space, and then maybe do away with the crate and just have her bed eventually.

Oh she does have her own posh big bed which we put down the side of our bed at bedtime and she goes on it to start with but then she chooses to try to sneak up on ours

We also have a crate but it's in the kitchen and we only use it when we go out, although we just close the stairgate on the kitchen doorway and not the crate door.

Hertsgirl · #12 (**permalink**) 09-01-2012, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Barkie

OP. -

P was very good at this and was little bother even as a teen but M who I had before her was a bright but devious and stubborn little mite from day 1 and it was several weeks of relentless practice with high value rewards and half her dinner in my pockets before I saw light at the end of the tunnel. She would 'work' when she felt like it - and to start with she mostly didn't feel like it.

It did click into place by keeping at it with her and she turned out to be a very obedient dog with a recall to die for but the first couple of months were pretty grim. I didn't let up, to be honest I was terrified not to, and I'm sure if you keep plugging away at it you'll succeed too. It's a phase, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

Thanks, I'm hoping so as we want her to be well behaved

I will keep at it with her, I never had any of these problems with my dog Arnie who we lost in Sept and we had him from birth (we had his mum too) but like humans, I suppose all dogs are different

SLB · #13 (**permalink**) 09-01-2012, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Hertsgirl

Cookie has become increasingly stubborn as she's got older, she's only almost 6 months and she takes no notice if she doesn't want to! We have her trained to sit, stay etc and mostly she is good but she has lately shown what a stubborn little bugger she can be! Little madam..

Dogs are not stubborn - you're just not working hard enough.

Hertsgirl · #14 (**permalink**) 09-01-2012, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by SLB

Dogs are not stubborn - you're just not working hard enough.

haha I think that's what Cookie thinks too!!

SLB · #15 (**permalink**) 09-01-2012, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Hertsgirl

haha I think that's what Cookie thinks too!!

I didn't mean it in a nasty way - just realised how it could've been took, glad you didn't take it like that though

Dober · #16 (**permalink**) 09-01-2012, 04:46 PM

Hehe, my dog also reached the dreaded 'dober-teens' a few weeks ago where my gorgeous angel of a dog turned into a disobedient SOD and seems to have got cotton wool stuck in his ears

were just working harder and harder to maintain he level we've been going at before.

At least it won't last forever! (although, it doesn't feel that way at the moment!

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CheddarS · #17 (**permalink**) 09-01-2012, 06:41 PM

I think mine is hitting it early (4 months)...he has a mind of his own...made my OH take him on a walk in the dark tonight to calm him down and get him out for a minute while I prepare dinner!

Longton Flyball · #18 (**permalink**) 09-01-2012, 09:13 PM

Clover has always been stubborn and at almost 10months is actually better...ok sometimes if giggle wiggle is confiscated.

Duke's almost 8years old and he's becoming a stubborn old man but hey that's what we love about them it's their attitude that makes them who they are.

Just keep training or doing what your doing and you'll get there

Hertsgirl · #19 (**permalink**) 10-01-2012, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Dober

At least it won't last forever! (although, it doesn't feel that way at the moment!

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It doesn't feel that way, you're right!! But persevere I will - she will do thing's my way

Hertsgirl · #20 (**permalink**) 10-01-2012, 01:52 PM

I'm so glad this is 'normal' behaviour in most dogs and not just mine

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