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Well we have had Angel home now for 2 weeks..Good lord it seems like longer....Anyways, she's healed up really well and is now acting like a rambunctious teenager...Lord I forgot how much energy they have at that age. We pretty much have been coddling her, which may have been a mistake, but I don't think so...So I decided it was time to get serious....
Rhonda (her breeder) had told me that she knew some things, but "sit " was never taught as you don't want a show dog to sit in the ring...Makes sense, right? I figured that was a good place to start. Now I've never had to teach a grown dog to sit, Samson knew it and my others were puppies..A bit harder with a grown dog...Got out the treats and venision for Samson ( that's all he gets for treats now). I used the same concept you do with puppies, hold the treat to their nose to get their attention, start to bring it up and over their head, repeating the word "sit"..She didn't get it..
Tried sweeping under her back legs also, couldn't get her to do that either. Poor Samson in the mean time is just sitting pretty, waiting....Lol...FINALLY, after about 5 minutes I got her to sit,,,yahoo.. I praised her soo much, gave her a treat and had to keep Samson out of the way while doing so.. Waited a few minutes, did it again,, took almost as long and Samson was getting impatient, every time I started to hold the treat out to Angel, he kept lunging at it...Finally I figured out a way to block him and work with her...Now she's sitting pretty real fast and I use that to divert her from bad behaviors..Like runing wild on the couches, etc....
Whew.. hard work guys...Now we are working on wait....This girl will bolt out the back door with me on the lead faster than you can imagine.... :lol:
Rhonda (her breeder) had told me that she knew some things, but "sit " was never taught as you don't want a show dog to sit in the ring...Makes sense, right? I figured that was a good place to start. Now I've never had to teach a grown dog to sit, Samson knew it and my others were puppies..A bit harder with a grown dog...Got out the treats and venision for Samson ( that's all he gets for treats now). I used the same concept you do with puppies, hold the treat to their nose to get their attention, start to bring it up and over their head, repeating the word "sit"..She didn't get it..
Whew.. hard work guys...Now we are working on wait....This girl will bolt out the back door with me on the lead faster than you can imagine.... :lol:
