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Andrew Andy
I'M A GIRL. I- KNOW IT'S A- BOY'S NAME. | 
 | | Barked: Sat Aug 1, '09 11:47am PST | |  | |  | | Maybe its just that our little Andy is only over a year old but I can't help but feel she doesn't really... GET alot of things.
She's potty trained for onesies, but she's still working on twosies. She likes the privacy I think. So when she DOES go outside, I lavish her and give her treats. But I don't think she connects the two at all, because she'll do business then totally space out. Ill give her a treat and she'll eat it, but she eats it without looking at me and almost like she doesn't care.
When we go play fetch with a ball, she knows the drill. Sit and it gets thrown, bring it back, rinse, repeat. But she is NOT good at bringing it back to ME. She'll bring it back to some arbitrary point. She's consistent with it, its the same place every time, but not... ME. It might be her water bowl, which i bring with us, or her leash/harness, or my bag. But not to someone who will keep throwing it.
I put peanut butter and treat pieces in her Kong toy, which s new for her. The pieces will easily fall out once they get unstuck from the peanut butter, all she has to do is roll the toy 90 degrees. I've demonstrated it to her, but she just... doesn't piece it together. She just keeps digging her teeth into the thing as hard as she can trying to break it. When she finally flails the thing around enough and one comes out, she doesn't even notice.
I've tied little compressed rawhides up in a piece of cloth, which she recognizes, and then I wrap it with rope, which is easily undone with a few tugs at the ends. She just starts ripping away, going bonkers, and almost eats the cloth every time, and i have to step in.
I wanted to get her a buster cube but I'm afraid she just will never eat. Age or is she just a little dim?Edited by author Sat Aug 1, '09 12:04pm PST
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camper
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 | | Barked: Sun Aug 9, '09 5:51pm PST | | | | | | Hi,Andrew
My Camper is about the same age.He also had a problem with no.2.
If you have a yard,take her no.2 outside and leave it where she usally pees.She will definetly smell it as all dogs do..lol.It worked in only a short time for Camper.Camper also has a problem bringing the ball or object back to me..He seems to like kong now but it did take a few to get him to play with it.I did get him to sit,lay down,and
give me his paw in about a week.The only thing with that is,he tries to do all three at once...lol | | | | |
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Errinna
Errinna "lovable- redhead" |
| | Barked: Wed Aug 19, '09 11:13pm PST | | | | | | My trainer said that having an acd is like having a young child with no attention span. (haha) My girl is three and a half and she definitly has a mind of her own. She wont bring a ball back to me she likes to play keep away she loves for me to chase her. Lukily she will go to the bathroom outside but it took about a year for me to get her to do it. In my own opionion I dont think that acds a stupid but they have absolutly no attention span. | | | | |
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holly
PULHEES throw- the ball or let- a cow out! |
| | Barked: Sat Sep 12, '09 10:18pm PST | | | | | | I had to smile, we got holly 4 mos ago. She is a brilliant dog, but she is afterall 'just' a dog. She sees no reason to work at the kong unless we will hold it for her. she did get the idea that poo was bad inside but only because i praised her while she was in the act not even a second later cause her mind was on to other things by that time. She has figured out now that peeing on the floor inside is bad....so she recently peed on my bed then a few days later my daughters.She will bring the ball back a lot but if my mother is visiting she will alwayALWAYS give her the ball...my mother has never thrown it for her. She will many times bring the ball but is so intent on mouthing it she just cant give it up though she would love to chase it again, she does not see the neccessary corralation between us having the ball in hand and being able to throw it. Yet this is the dog that has learned 'stay' so well i can leave her on the other side of a street and talk to her from the other side with sweet praise that includes her name and she will not move till 'come' is in the sentence, she can sit, roll over, army crawl, jump up, shake and drop on command most all the time. She has learned to 'leave' her chosen target of chase, and many other feats so do I care that she doesnt fetch to my specifications if she is a happy dog having fun, do i care that she doesnt find a kong as alluring as the dog on the ad? Yeah i can do without the peeing on the bed but i will consider the fact that she figured out the floor is wrong as a victory and move on to the lesson that the bed is a 'no' also. Just enjoy the dog and yes a year is still very young so things will come all the better with time just continue patiently rewarding good behavior and not rewarding bad behavior and by 3 years old you will both know what to expect. | | | | |
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Gravy
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| | Barked: Sat Nov 7, '09 5:41pm PST | | | | | | It can be really hard to potty train a dog--I totally understand your frustration/concern.
Our ACD is currently 8 months old and is fully potty trained. We got him when he was 6 months old and it really only took about 1-2 weeks. His only "oopsies" happen when we forget to take him out (we live in an apartment) or when he is sick.
What we did was:
* Timed his eating and drinking. This was CRUCIAL because we waited 15-30 minutes after he ate or drank and took him out. That way, we were predicting when he was going to go so we could praise him for going outside.
* Watched him closely. We never let him out of our sight and we were able to notice his "signals." Whenever he started sniffing or pacing we knew it was time. Eventually, he started sitting or pacing by the door, which let us know he had to go.
* Timed our praise. While we were walking him and waiting for him to go, we watched his every move. As soon as he started to squat, we said "pee" or "poo" and WHILE he was going we acted like he just won us a million bucks (we praised him really well, the whole time he was going). Once he finished, he got a treat. Eventually, he didn't get treats anymore, but we will say "good boy" and stuff like that.
* Once back inside, he got praised again and given a treat.
* If he started going in the apartment, we did not yell at him. We just called him, distracted him, and took him outside. Even if we were too late, he still got taken outside. We never, ever called him a bad dog dog or punished him (not saying I think you did, just trying to be as specific as possible!!)
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rosco
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| | Barked: Mon Nov 16, '09 4:15pm PST | | | | | | Rosco is only half acd but he doesn't like to return the ball or stand next to me while I throw it. I realized he's not a retriever and would rather stand in front facing me and try to stop the balls. He's a really good golie and if one gets past him he will chase it. Play time is for him to enjoy so I don't insist on a traditional game of fetch for him because he doesn't seem to enjoy it as much. I have many tennis balls and i throw them at him; the ones he stops he just leaves where he stopped them the ones that get past him he retrieves and leaves with the ones he stopped. | | | | |
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