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off-leash success?

  
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Bandit

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Barked: Thu Oct 16, '08 9:16am PST 
Nismo
Bandit here again, thanks for your reply to my questions. My mom has been trying to help our neighbors to work with their Shiba Inu and even bought them a book all about the breed to give them a better insight of information and resources to try to understand the breed and learn how to handle him and teach him properly. She agrees with you that they should have had something like that in their hands before taking in their Shiba Inu into their home. As well as they should have taken more time to look for the right Shiba Inu for their family before adopting the first one that they came into contact with. Not to say theirs is a bad dog, but it is obvious it was never given the chance to be trained properly and the abuse it did have in it's first home has made an impact on him.
Thank you for your response perhaps now if Mom and I have a chance to meet another Shiba Inu in person someday, we will not have as much fear of the breed as this neighbor's dog has installed into us. Thank you for giving us a spark of hope.smilehail
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Foxie

everything is- MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!- !!!!!!!!!!		 
 
Barked: Sat Jan 3, '09 7:50am PST 
foxie is constantly off leash. it took a lot of hard work and patience, but it has been well worth it. i have owned several breeds and this was the toughest to train, but it has paid off. i live in denver, but very few people comment poorly about off leash pets because it shows the training level. i have had many people ask me if they would recomend a shiba, and i ask them what their experiance level is for begginers i would not recomend this breed because they can be stubborn, and bull headed. none the less my shiba is my favorite dog that i have ever owned, and she always seems willing to please, but in her stubborn ways.
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Sunshine

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Barked: Mon Apr 13, '09 5:51pm PST 
My Shiba is always on a 16' flexi leash. Shiba's are natural born hunters and will chase anything that moves, even a bird flying overhead. My Shiba will not respond while in the hunting mode, I just give her a little time at the end of the leash and then she will snap out of it and come to mommy.
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Kumiko

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Barked: Fri May 1, '09 4:07pm PST 
Ok, I have not read all of this thread, but I want to chime in here: Kumiko is almost 8 months old. She is training to be a service dog, and has had a lot of obedience training. That being said, she goes to dog parks often. I always work on her recall when there. Always! Every single chance I get I work on her recall. I make sure that any time she comes when called is the best time ever! I use treats and a clicker.

Last weekend I took her to San Francisco with me to meet some friends. We stopped at a huge grass area off the waterfront. The main road was only a sidewalk away from the field. The other service dogs I was with were off leash there, playing and having fun. Kumiko really wanted to play and she was so good on the train ride over, I decided to give it a try. At first I had her drag her leash, but then it got all tangled. So I took off the leash and did a couple obedience commands with her to get her to know that I have treats and I am in charge. Then I let her go. She ran around in very big circles with the other dogs. She is really fast. She would venture a little close to the sidewalk, but I would say "Ah-Ah, too far" and she would go back the other way. She played there for about an hour. She even heeled with me off leash to the fountain to get water.

It was fantastic. There were other Shiba people coming by and were quite impressed with her. It was really awesome. So with a lot of hard work you can do it. Last night I let her off leash in the field by our apartment, and she stayed right near me the whole time. Then she heeled off leash all the way home.

Now that being said, when Kumiko was younger she had gotten away from me and ran off. I chased her down though and made sure to try not to panic and to still praise her for coming back. You can't ever be angry with them for coming back to you. You can be angry on your own time, but not at your dog. So she has not always been so good at this. We have a very strong bond, and have worked very hard.

So find a treat that your dog loves the most, and only use that treat when working on recall. Kumiko loves string cheese or hotdog. You can use a whistle, clicker, squeek toy, anything else to help you. But when working on this only do it in a secure area. I hope that helps! Good luck! But make sure your dog is microchipped just in case!

Nicole and Kumiko
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KOUME

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Barked: Wed May 27, '09 10:28pm PST 
Hi Koko,
We have been training off leash the past 6 months. Although, I am only comfy letting them off leash where are no cars , such as at chrissy fields or fort funston. We worked with a trainer and started working on long lines and slowly shortened the lines as they seemed more reliable.
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Mika

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Barked: Thu Aug 6, '09 2:15am PST 
Mika is good off-leash to the point that we've trusted her to; she LOVES car rides, and darts straight to mine or my roommate's truck when we let her know it's time to load up. Then, once she's been somewhere (our parents' houses, a friend's place, etc.) enough to recognize the smell of it, we won't leash her getting out of the car.

She's great at the dog park (but must be leashed going to or leaving it, or she'll never manage to make it inside--there are so many interesting smells outside, too!), and as long as there's a treat involved, she listens well.
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