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To: processing please hold

Oh that’s just beautiful. “Babble” all you wanna; it’s wonderful that they’ve brought her outside her shell.

If you make them work for a treat - as in “sit” for it first - they’ll be more prompt at carrying out your commands. It doesn’t make much difference for me in overall obedience once a dog is trained, but helps them focus at an age when eagerness can be overwhelming.


335 posted on 03/21/2008 9:14:13 AM PDT by Titan Magroyne ("Shorn, dumb and bleating is no way to go through life, son." Yeah, close enough.)
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To: Titan Magroyne
If you make them work for a treat - as in “sit” for it first - they’ll be more prompt at carrying out your commands.

That's how I've been doing it today. Grace will sit on command, stay, if I stand next to her and won't move until I command 'come' and start walking. She is so eager to please.

Lilly, oh Lilly! Stubborn, headstrong and wants to be alpha female to me. Ain't gonna happen. She keeps trying to walk me instead of the other way around. I'm establishing my dominance over her and she isn't liking it one iota.

I would like for Grace to be the alpha female between them. I'll give it a few more days to see who comes out on top between them.

I'm a good tired. :)

344 posted on 03/21/2008 6:33:52 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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