How to train your dog to RELIABLY come when called
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- čas přidán 7. 07. 2024
- This video covers how to teach a reliable recall or in other words come when called. In this video I talk about the importance of knowing your specific dog and what makes your dog excited as well as scared as this will factor into the training for the recall.
Here is a video on proofing a recall:
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This is exactly what I'm needing right now. My puppy is 4 months old, he listens to me inside in his kennel and barely does sit and down outside with few distractions, but he does not listen when i call his name, because he thinks that the grass is more interesting than me. Thank you Emily.
This was brilliant. Thank you so much Emily. It makes so much sense.
Thank you so much Emily. Sending ❤❤❤
This honestly never occurred to me! The mat method for prey animals
Thanks so much!!
Hi. I have a little 8 month old Staffy who is very stubborn and has unusual fears. I have her in her first training class and she and I are the worst students in there...Your teaching is amazingly helpful. I just found the one on how to make a dog lay down and it worked the first time :) I don't think she had any idea she was being trained. She is our third Staffy and our first female. Her energy was so high when we got her, we had to get one of those calming vests. You are very gracious to share your information and it is easy to follow. Thank you soooo much.
This is such good stuff to keep in mind- thank you for sharing this!
Thank you so much!! I never truly understood how powerful it is to build calmness!
As always, excellent tips. Thank you!
your welcome!
I love your videos so so so much. Your training methods are the best ever, I basicaly agree with every method you explain. I got a puppy in may, he’s 9 months old now, and honestly he is trained so well. And that’s really for a big part been because of your videos!! I recommend you to anyone who’s having any troubles. My pup comes 100% reliably, he is sooo good and wants to please me so bad. He honestly comes any time, as he knows I’ll walk on without him if he doesn’t, and I have conditioned him to want to be with me over anything. Also I followed your leash pressure videos and my dog just doesn’t pull. He’s 9 months old! I’m so so proud of him. He is the best ❤️
Excellent vid, Emily! Thank you! You have a gift of clarity in your explanations that makes them so accessable! I combine Leave-it and Come for a reliable recall (lots of practice with Leave-it!😊🐺) And your tip about releasing pup back to sniff etc. works great! Thanks again, Emily! Blessings, JJ and Ruthie
I can't add anything to what others have already said. This was so simply and such "common sense", but I'd never thought of it before. Thanks, Emily!
Awe thanks!
Thank you for your great info!!
Emily - thank you so much for your always helpful videos! Whenever I find myself getting frustrated with our pup, I put on one of your videos and am reminded that there are so many ways to help him (and me!) improve and learn in a positive manner.
You too, huh?! About to get her out of her crate, and wanted to get my head in the game!
Great tips! Thanks for sharing 🥰
Agree
Great advices. Very helpful. Thank you very much.
You're very welcome!
Good tips, must try. Thanks 👍🏽
Thank you Emily, this is so helpful. It's now obvious, but I hadn't realised that I have to 'proof' recall for the environment. We have just moved to a new area and my dog's recall has got so much worse, I thought he had gone deaf! He is distracted by new smells, new dogs, even different birds/wildlife. I've gone back to putting him on a long leash, especially since I don't know the areas we are walking in. I had wondered where to start, but you have given me some great tips with this video. Thank you 🙏👍
This video is very helpful! Thank you ❤️
thanks!
Great video as usual. Perfectly clear
thanks!
Thank you!! My dog is getting better at being calm, and I thought, "man I have to teach him to be more obedient when he's hyper," but realistically my dog has more self control than I do!! when I'm hyper and impulsively do something out of habit or because it's fun, I struggle to stop myself mid behaviour. For example, I interrupt people chronically. 😅 My 8 month old elkhound will be running around hyper and lovey and playful as can be, put his mouth on me, stop himself mid bite and bite his toy. That is so much better than my behaviour when I interrupt people lol. And when he is calm and has had enough sleep, he will intentionally not bite me at all and you can see that is because he is exercising self control, not because it didn't occur to him to bite me ❤ I love him so much
You are fantastic. I am learning so much from you. I have 4 weeks to wait until I get my new puppy
Beautiful explanations. My highly prey-driven dog needs to have a mat to "RELAX" on while the squirrels scamper. He might stay but he's still highly aroused by them. So I'm guessing that first I need to get him to relax on a particular mat before I move it to outside and then closer and closer to the prey, while still on leash.
Thanks! Understanding why your dog doesn't come when called
is key.
This is really great! I never really thought about using yourself as a distraction, that's brilliant. Dont mind If I do write that down in my notes.
Thanks for the comment! It means more people will see the video :)
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Explained very well! I teach this and use a clicker to help. ❤️
My "problem" is that my BC knows exactly what the recall is but when sth is really interesting (such as seeing a dog approach that he usually plays with) he actively thinks about whether he should come to me or go to the other dog. He does come but he hesitates (sometimes for a long time) and that can be dangerous.
In one scenario I have no chance to recall him. A younger (1yo) male dog plays with my dog's best female dog friend and runs really fast - my dog has to run into that dog, stop him and keep him immobile. That little control freak 🙄 The other dog accepts it. Once he has done that, he will react again but not while he is running towards that younger dog. That's why I keep my dog near me when the other two dogs play.
Thanks for all of your wonderfully informative videos!
Thanks for all the info!! It totally makes sense, but we have a high prey drive 2.5 year old rescue husky (she had puppies at 11 months, so grew up way too fast without training). Sometimes she just decides to ignore us. We have been using positive reinforcement in general for the last year and a half. Could you please tell us on average approximately how many total hours of training this way are required to train a reliable recall for a dog like ours when she wants a rabbit, squirrel, cat, etc? This would help with lunging on walks as well I think. Thanks very much!
Can you talk about realistic timelines for making progress for these sorts of things? My dog used to be very reactive to wildlife and even though she's better than before, I still imagine this being several months of desensitization before I can call her off animals.
Thatwas very interesting, thank you! But my dog is so over ecxited when it comes to other dogs, that i could stand there with his Most favorite food and ball on a 100 m Distanz and he would Not even think about looking at me. He is just starring to the other dog and gets frustrated very soon if he is Not allowed to Play with them. Do you Might have an idea what Else i could do?
Pretty sure she has a video specifically on the premack principal. If not, Susan Garrett definitely does. We teach Suzanne Clothier's automatic check in in their very first class. So without saying anything or making any noises, you're just waiting for them to look at you. As soon as they do, Yes, treat. Now this is practicing in the house first, other rooms, adding distractions, movement, etc, before moving to the back yard, maybe 2 football fields away from a distraction at a park, etc. Hope that helps.
I adopted an 8mo dog in August and have been really trying to drill recall (previous owners didn't do anything). My struggle is phasing the leash out; as soon as she realizes she's off leash, she goes galavanting around the neighborhood/woods and only after an hour does she stop for me to calmly grab her collar and leash her
Here, I would suggest sure work on recall training, but also work on walking off leash with you. You can do this to begin with having her on a long line and walking around something like a base ball field inclosed. If you wanted to let her roam and play further than 12 feet from you you can cue her, then call her back, but I honestly suggest to not do that if you have trouble with her running away from you right now, I would build and reinforce walking with you and not going further than 12 feet away.
My dog does not like to train with me as much as your dogs seem to love training with you - he will do it for food but if the choice is playing with me vs chasing a squirrel the squirrel always wins. I only let him off leash if it is safe but I am worried that if I take away the things he likes (like chasing squirrels ) will he become sad and depressed?
How would you work on the recall with two siblings? They are 7 months now and don't listen at all when called because they find it more fun to chase and play with each other
Work them individually first, get them both good there, then go back to baby steps when you bring them together. Like 30 seconds, good, k, end training session on a good note. So in order to get what they want, have to do what you want first. Hope that helps.
Finding out what scares my Terv isn't difficult, he's scared of EVERYTHING. Luckily he tries to climb up on me when he gets scared, so there's no chance he'd run away, haha.
Yeah Wish my BC was like that shed climb up me. BUt I still worked on her fears even though I never had to do much proofing of her recall cause she sees me as the best and safest thing to be around
@@kikopup Yeah, I'm working hard with him every day, the progress is slow, but it's still noticable.
Would this work for squirrels? They appear so intermittantantly it's hard to practice at a distance.
I have the same problem with cats.
@@ionicamermaid1141 For a second I thought you were trying to practice recall with cats who saw squirrels 😂
You could also mark and reward the dog for looking at the squirrel from a distance, every time they see one from a distance. This will gradually change their emotional reaction to seeing a squirrel, from excitement and wanting to chase, to noticing and redirecting their attention back to you, and eventually they'll lose interest in them altogether. It's a technique used with reactive dogs called engage-disengage (search that term here on YT and you'll find more videos on it) and is really helpful!
Yes, teaching them to not be so excited by squirrels will then make a recall easier. Heres a video of my dogs ignoring squirrels czcams.com/video/6uTgSr0acBo/video.html and showing how it makes the recall easy. The key is management and prevention between training. Try to avoid squirrels when you are not training. Sometimes this can be hard, It might mean, you need to go outside and chase them all away before letting dogs out the door.
My dog is excited by running, she loves to run. When called she doesnt come all the way back to me. Instead she will stand where she is and I will have to go up to her. If I walk in the opposite direction to get her to follow, she knows Im bluffing and that we will turn and walk in the original direction, so she still doesnt come to my side
Something that might help is not accepting (don't treat) that in between step when training, as in she has to come right up to you for a treat. That and/or target training ("touch" command), where "come" doesn't just mean running up to you, it means nose to your hand (and practice with collar grabs too)
I suggest practicing calling her and releasing her to run where its safe, so that calling isn't ending the fun of running (which is a punishment for her and making her less likely to come back)
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Giving my dog access to his girlfriend dogs when he comes is not going to work. 😩😅 He is completely obsessed with his dog friends. No treat or toy in the world will work.
First you let them play, then when they have had a good play, you start the games of recall, and return to play. If you do it right when they meet its too big of a training step. Youll get there! :)
@@kikopup thanks a lot! I am really concerned because he is a small high energy dog that will run up to unknown dogs and can sometimes be quite rude and cocky, recipe for disaster.
That’s why I often have him on a long leash, it’s like just his personality. So when he is with dog friends, I am so scared that a aggressive dog will come, even if leashed, he will run up and get bit. 😓 My other dog is not like this at all and I can trust him to be off leash, friendly and back off need be.