"Janet Boss" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Sue and Atty" wrote:


We spent an entire hour long class "being a tree" waiting for Atty to
stop
pulling and barking (I want to PLAYYYY) so we could click and treat her.
Atty was 6 months old and our trainer had a baby, so we tried somewhere
else
because I did want my 6 month old lab waiting until our trainer came back
to
work 3 months later. It was one of those goody goody no correction
clicker
classes. Did not work for us. It does work for some, but not mine.

Atty sounds pretty average in her response to this technique! Like I
said, who has time for that crap?

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Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

hmmm that should have read.... did NOT want my 6 month old lab
waiting....... but I'm sure you figured that out!

I didn't particularly want to spend my 8 classes "being a tree" - I didn't
feel we were getting much out of it. Thankfully, there was a substitute
teacher (the owner of the facility) in for probably 3 of the classes. So,
we did get something out of the class, for those classes. If nothing else,
we did get socialization, but not much help in working through other things.
That came later, when maternity leave was over, along with work on our own
outside class (which was going to happen anyway - and is needed anyway - you
can't show up once a week and do no work in between and expect miracles).
But of course, in those actual classes, with 15 other dogs barking and
pulling and 15 owners practicing their tree.......... we were just all
waiting to get pee'd on by the boys! To this day, "be a tree" is a running
joke in our house.

I agree, my time is limited, I want the most bang for my buck. I know that
it takes time and maturing of the dog (plus work on the owner's part), but
heck. I'm not expecting the pulling to stop over night, but I at least
would appreciate (after all, I'm paying for) professional advise. The tree
thing wasn't working, and she offered no other solution.

Sue and Atty