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A couple behavior questions
I have a 2 1/2 year old toller. She has turned into a great dog, for the
most part. 1) In the past few weeks she has started kicking grass over her poop. I didn't know what the lawn damage was until she did it on a walk today. Since I can't even see her do it, I can't imagine how to stop it. Any suggestions, beyond hoping it goes away as quickly as it came? 2) She is pretty good with heel, sit, come and stay (though she does everything slowly); but doesn't seem to know what down and stand mean. If she is standing, she will sit on down; and if she is sitting, she will very slowly do a down on down. If she is down, she will sit on stand; if she is sitting, she will start trembling on stand. My sense is that she really wants to do it, but doesn't have the faintest idea what I am telling her to do. I have been working on this for 2 years, and it is pretty frustrating. I am not a complete novice; my first dog (also a toller) picked everything up immediately, but it took a while to convince him they were commands rather than requests. Jessie on the other hand just doesn't know what the commands mean. Her hearing seems good, so that is not the problem. The main difference between the training the two dogs received is that I trained the first one, and the whole family trained Jessie. Could that somehow have confused her? (The other difference is that I used a choke collar and a remote training collar on the first dog, but they seem completely inappropriate on Jessie so they haven't been used.) Any advice on what to do with an apparently stupid but lovable dog? (other than accepting that "down" isn't really necessary, and giving up.) |
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