Hello all -
First off - GAD - I think that this board is great. Thanks for making it!
We have a 13 week old puppy which is my husband and my first dog as grown ups and first newf for both of us. She is just a doll 90% of the time. We have her in a puppy training class that is all positive - a modification on clicker training. She is doing great with her commands, sit, down,
touch, shake, come. She gets into these crazed moods however where she doesn't listen at all and will jump on us, the sofa, or mouth our hands. The positive training people recomend ignoring her or training an incompatible behavior. Sometimes this isn't just quite enough nor is the word "no". We try time outs but im not sure that she always makes the connection with what she did wrong. The rest of the time she is very sensitive to our dissatisfaction.
Basically, im a push over and looking for a way to let her know more clearly that her behavior is unacceptable.
Any thoughts?
TIA,
Ann
First off - GAD - I think that this board is great. Thanks for making it!
We have a 13 week old puppy which is my husband and my first dog as grown ups and first newf for both of us. She is just a doll 90% of the time. We have her in a puppy training class that is all positive - a modification on clicker training. She is doing great with her commands, sit, down,
touch, shake, come. She gets into these crazed moods however where she doesn't listen at all and will jump on us, the sofa, or mouth our hands. The positive training people recomend ignoring her or training an incompatible behavior. Sometimes this isn't just quite enough nor is the word "no". We try time outs but im not sure that she always makes the connection with what she did wrong. The rest of the time she is very sensitive to our dissatisfaction.
Basically, im a push over and looking for a way to let her know more clearly that her behavior is unacceptable.
Any thoughts?
TIA,
Ann