My dog wont come back to me! - Page 2

daniellechua · #11 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 01:05 PM

You mean when you impose the COME command it stil not working?

This might be happened because you misuse your COME command and your dog misinterprets the COME command too! You might be accidentally using the COME command for something that he doesn’t really enjoy. Let say, your dog does not enjoy bathing. So, do not use the COME command when you want to bath him. When you use the COME command during his bathing session he will start to associate the COME command with negative experience which he dislike. So whenever you say the COME command, he will misinterpret and refuse to do so!

But there are times where your COME command is being ignored because there are much more interesting things that attract your dog. E.g chasing the opposite sex dog. (This will not happened to neuter or spay dog). Dogs will not COME over when you are calling him if he felt you are not dominant!

Almost all dogs can be temporarily distracted by something exciting, you can enforce your COME command by attracting your dog attention by calling him name energetic and enthusiastically. Do not forget to give him verbal praise when he is able to follow your command! This is very important as dogs enjoy doing things that pleased his master.

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Natik · #12 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 01:16 PM

when do u actually know that ur dog is ready to be let off the lead?

Mine do come when i call them in the garden, but when they start play fighting then they dont always react.

I am a bit scared to try out and let them off lead incease they take off and i will not see them again

dogpositivetraining · #13 (**permalink**) 02-09-2008, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ashleys

She's a boxer bitch, I don't know if they do have good recall. To be fair she is quite good when we're walking on our own, its when she see's someone else or especially another dog then she just ignores us.

She's a good dog and wouldn't hurt a fly, part of the reason that we want her to come back is because she will happily run head first into a dog that could be aggressive (for this reason we do try to get her on a lead if we see a dog before she does).

In the house she'll come when we call her, will sit when we tell her to, shake a paw, etc. and we can put her dinner out and she will sit and wait patiently until she is told she can have it. So she's capable, just a bit of a pain in the bum when off the lead, which we DO want her to be able to do as its nice to watch her bounding off into the grass and really stretching her legs.

Giving her treats when we're out is a no go, she's just really not interested in taking anything from us. Neither is using toys, she (like most dogs) goes crazy at a squeaky toy, but she's not in the slightest bit phazed when she's out.

We hope that she calms down when we get another dog, hopefully she'll be more accustomed to another dogs permenant company and wont feel the need to go and see every dog out there.

Hi,

You might find this thread interesting:

Best way to teach RECALL

You say treats don't work, which does create a slight problem

What sort of treats have you tried using so far?

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