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Yard Training
- Spirit Rider -
Anyone have advice on teaching a pup his yard limit? I let my pup play in the yard the other day and he wanted to tour the neighborhood. I happened to be there when he took off and after 15 minutes of chasing him finally caught him. In the process I was scared he would run out in a busy street and get killed. Any advice would HIGHLY be appreciated. - Nehmo - I might take a lot of work, but it's possible to train a dog to stay within pre-designated physical limits. Basically, you have to communicate to the dog what these limits are, and this is possible even with a puppy. Have a seat outside while allowing your dog to run free. Every time, I repeat, _every_time_ your dog crosses a border of the area, you say, "No!", or whatever you say to communicate disapproval. Once the dog re-crosses the border and returns to your area, you communicate approval with "Good dog", or whatever you use. If your dog leaves the area and doesn't respond to your disapproval or commands to return, you must immediately go get him. Don't discipline him after you catch him, but as soon as you cross the border with him back into the yard, start praising him for being back home. After your dog is trained to stay in the area while you are outside, start leaving him outside alone - while you watch through a window. Do the same thing: if you see him leave the area, go outside and show disapproval, then approval when he comes back into the area. Dogs have a highly refined sense of territory. Once you have an understanding with your dog on this subject, you can easily adapt the area limits to fit new circumstances. The designated area can change form a room in a New York apartment to a ranch in Kansas. -- ******************** * Nehmo Sergheyev * ******************** |
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In rec.pets.dogs.misc Nehmo Sergheyev wrote:
I might take a lot of work, but it's possible to train a dog to stay within pre-designated physical limits. Basically, you have to communicate to the dog what these limits are, and this is possible even with a puppy. It is inedded possible to teach SOME dogs to stay within pre-designated physical limits. To do so you need to start with a dog that has some sense of territory. Many dogs have little or none. Some dogs are oriented only toward their pack members, with virtually no affinity for place. Some dogs are primarily oriented toward the hunt with neither pack nor place taking priority. Have a seat outside while allowing your dog to run free. Every time, I repeat, _every_time_ your dog crosses a border of the area, you say, "No!", or whatever you say to communicate disapproval. Once the dog re-crosses the border and returns to your area, you communicate approval with "Good dog", or whatever you use. This step must, of course, include every likely distraction and temptation. It also must continue well into the maturity of the dog as the dog's drives and behavior change with maturity. A dog that is not at all territorial at 6 months may become quite so at 18 months. And during all this training other issues must be carefully evaluated. For example the dog's behavior toward delivery people and other service people must be oberved to ensure that the dog won't become a danger to them. That is often the case with a dog that can be territory trained. It is because they care about territory that they become aggressive in their defence of it. And even if the person judges the dog not to be a danger the behavior of the dog must be such that none of these people *feel* in danger. Dog owners can be and have been successfully sued when a person frightened by the behavior of the apparently unrestrained dog steps into the street and is hit by a car, or trips and falls in an effort to evade the dog. In these cases the reasonable fear of the person rules - that the dog would not or could not cause harm was not a defences. If your dog leaves the area and doesn't respond to your disapproval or commands to return, you must immediately go get him. Don't discipline him after you catch him, but as soon as you cross the border with him back into the yard, start praising him for being back home. After your dog is trained to stay in the area while you are outside, start leaving him outside alone - while you watch through a window. Do the same thing: if you see him leave the area, go outside and show disapproval, then approval when he comes back into the area. Dogs have a highly refined sense of territory. Actually only some dogs have a highly refined sense of territory. Many dogs do not care about territory. Even among dogs with a sense of territory there are other drives e.g. prey drive that may predominate and defeat attempts at boundary training. Once you have an understanding with your dog on this subject, you can easily adapt the area limits to fit new circumstances. The designated area can change form a room in a New York apartment to a ranch in Kansas. There are an awful lot of dead dogs whose owner's refrain is "Funny, he never did that before." Boundary training is labor intensive even when successful. Even when the goal of recognizing the boundary is achieved there are many downsides to leaving a dog unsupervised and uncontained. For the vast majority of dog owners it is a loser in the benefit-risk assessment. Diane Blackman |
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