Hunter is my 2 year old GSD/Lab/Golden mix dog. My Summer 2008 goal is to figure out how to keep him in our yard. Last year if he was outside he had a leash on, whether I was holding it or he was dragging a long line. It didn't keep him in the yard but it was easier to grab him when he had the long lead trailing him. This year we have been gradually getting away from that...baby steps...
Every day I take the dogs out (one on one) for some sort of training. Yesterday Hunter and I went out and started working off lead. He was being a little 'squirley' as in kind of not paying attention and etc. Then he did it...he gave me the look. That's the "wanna run?" look. I did everything I knew to do... I started calling him all excitedly, turning my back and running the other way, asking him if he wanted to play ball, etc. Nope. Didn't work. He took off and that was that.
I followed him and it wasn't until he stopped to look at the cows that I got close enough to grab his collar.
We have been going new places to do some distraction training with name recognition but apparently that doesn't matter when he's running.
It's been 3-4 weeks since he's done this and this is only the second time this spring/summer so I thought we were making good progress. Guess I was wrong.
What kind of suggestions do you have????
Thanks!
Lu
Every day I take the dogs out (one on one) for some sort of training. Yesterday Hunter and I went out and started working off lead. He was being a little 'squirley' as in kind of not paying attention and etc. Then he did it...he gave me the look. That's the "wanna run?" look. I did everything I knew to do... I started calling him all excitedly, turning my back and running the other way, asking him if he wanted to play ball, etc. Nope. Didn't work. He took off and that was that.
I followed him and it wasn't until he stopped to look at the cows that I got close enough to grab his collar.
We have been going new places to do some distraction training with name recognition but apparently that doesn't matter when he's running.
It's been 3-4 weeks since he's done this and this is only the second time this spring/summer so I thought we were making good progress. Guess I was wrong.
What kind of suggestions do you have????
Thanks!
Lu