Stop your dog’s mistaken thinking in only a few moments and permanently cancel a behavior. Correcting it takes the entire lifetime of your dog. So you can solve behavior problems permanently quickly, by correcting your dogs behavior problems each time they occur, for all time.
When you have had enough of correcting, whining, nagging, and arguing, just read this manual again, follow the directions, and change how you see things. Change is difficult.
As you prepare to leave after having shown him the meaning of your request, make a sound just before he reaches the doorway. As always, instantly praise him and continue to exit yourself, and if he continues to try to exit, create the sound just behind him, and praise again. If he leaves against your command, simply repeat the original command “go in the other room good boy”. He will treat this as a new command.
Pay attention to the last time sound was used, and try to make sure that in the next instance, the sound comes from the appropriate source, i.e. if your dog went into the “other room” without sound, perhaps strictly as a coincidence, then, that time would require you to make the sound with your next request.
So First request, “go in the other room, “; second request; “go in the other ROOM good boy”; third request “go in the other room, good boy”. Here’s the rest of the secret: The sequence of events never starts over again, but always continues from the last instance in which the sound was used. It is critical to remember the last occasion in which your dog was given a command.
Example: let’s say, he’s out in the back yard. You call him in, and he fails to respond. So you reach for the can, and repeat your request accompanied with one hard downward shake to create sound. Naturally, your dog will respond on this occasion. Next time that he is out in the yard, -even if it’s the next day, and he fails to respond when you ask him to come in, you’ve got to try to remember when it was, that you last needed to re-enforce the command, using sound.
You may take a moment to think, “wasn’t it last night I asked him to come inside, and i needed to create the sound on my second request for him to come in?” Now did the sound come from my hand, or from the can? Follow through with this thinking, and make the right choice.
Do your best, and set an appointment to do the Family Pack Leadership exercise when you plan to re-install the reflex to “come”. It’ll take about fiver or ten minutes.
