Comments on: Dog Training Fail – A Comedy of Errors

By: Amy@GoPetFriendly

Amy@GoPetFriendly — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:01:41 +0000

Oh my goodness – what a sight that must have been! I totally feel your pain – with two dogs with different issues training them on a walk together is nearly impossible. What’s right for one is always wrong for the other and I’m sure they come home more confused than ever.

By: Kolchak, Felix & Jodi

Kolchak, Felix & Jodi — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:03:10 +0000

I *roared* with laughter when I go to the “Nothing worse than a friendly stranger”?. That’s amazing! Oh what a dirty rotten day. Why oh why do we not listen to that voice in our head? I don’t think I have a story quite as EPIC as yours. I love the visual of Honey pulling you one way, Cherie the other and you just clicking along! LOL!

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:56:15 +0000

I showed my fiance the clicker once (I normally keep them hidden from the household. I don’t need other training cues/methods poisoned by them, thank you), and he took it and of course clicked it. Elka had been sitting by the door, waiting very patiently for me to open it so we could leave on our walk. She heard the click and whipped her head around to him, for the treat of course…..but instead connected that pointy Dober-skull right with a *cough* sensitive area. He said “great, now I taught her to…” I was all “no, you didn’t. The click means a treat. You clicked her for sitting at the door.”

Maybe I should train the people in my house better?

Elka is suspicious of crossing guards, perhaps because of the signs they hold, and is not interested in their milkbones.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:32:21 +0000

Sorry, and I did laugh as I pictured the situation.
Since you can’t do anything at time, just laugh. It will give you a good start for the day.

By: H and Flo

H and Flo — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:49:49 +0000

Hee hee. I am laughing. Sorry. I do feel your pain. How long does it take to untrain successful clicker training? 😀

By: 24 Paws of Love

24 Paws of Love — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:46:45 +0000

I have to agree with Clowie! Too funny and too cute! I hope you’ve been able to step back and at least smile. 🙂 Mine involved Brut and I, no one else. All of the sudden I thought I needed to teach Brut everything I wanted all at once. I took the leash out in backyard to start training him to walk better on leash. Rest of the back dogs were out as well. So after a couple of minutes he’s like what the heck are we doing leash=walk. Then he started getting upset. So I took him in the garage and he’s jumping up and down about going for a walk. I open garage door, he goes running out like usual. So all of the sudden I decide we are going to work on that. And I barely lift the garage door up and down about five times, while he’s trying to get his nose under and get out. We were both quite frustrated. Finally trying to end on a good note I threw up my hands, told him to sit, gave a treat and left it at that. Talk about a confused boy. 🙂 I went inside and cried. I never could get around to posting it because it hurt too much, but now when I think about it cracks me up!!

By: Clowie

Clowie — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:00:03 +0000

Yes, I laughed. Who could help but laugh at the thought of that clicker clicking away? You can obviously see the funny side of it! The clicker is the icing on the cake!

By: Married with Dawgs

Married with Dawgs — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:26:38 +0000

I’m pretty sure for every training success we have, I also experience one of those epic training failures. Hurley was having a relatively bad week in the store this week. He would be fine with a dog entering the store, I would walk to his kennel as soon as they entered and give him a few treats and some praise for not barking. Then I would walk over to my customer to help them, because you know, that’s my job, and Hurley would then bark. For several days, my thought process was “why is he reacting to the dog after they’ve been in the store for 1 minute” when I should have realized “Hurley’s barking to get my attention and those noms back in front of his face.” Dude is so much smarter than I am most of the time.

By: Jodi

Jodi — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:54:30 +0000

Gosh Pamela, it seems like every training session I have is epic fail. LOL This is the most recent one that springs to mind.

On Monday’s walk Delilah had left a deposit in the field, I bagged it up and tossed it to the side to pick up on our way out of the park. As I approached the field I heard our neighbor, her kids and the two dogs out there. I thought, I can put the dogs in a stay and pop down into the field, grab the bag and be gone.

I put them in their stays and started down, when Delilah moved. I brought her back, stayed her again and started down.

She broke the stay and tore past me into the field, with Sampson hot on her heels.

Epic training fail.

BTW, I’m constantly getting tangled when I have both dogs on leash. It seems like destiny to me. 🙂

By: Roxy the traveling dog

Roxy the traveling dog — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:54:23 +0000

That’s actually a pretty funny story. I’m sure things will go better next time around.