Comments on: Train Your Dog Month Challenge 2014 – What I Learned

By: How are your 2014 dog training goals coming along? | Oh My Dog!

How are your 2014 dog training goals coming along? | Oh My Dog! — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:03:21 +0000

[…] my main goal – and what I wanted to accomplish for the Train Your Dog Month Challenge – was to go through the Relaxation Protocol with both Cooper and […]

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:54:05 +0000

Thank you so much for hosting this. I’m going to enjoy clicking through everyone else’s because we didn’t even come close to completing our goals so don’t have a good follow-up to share. Sigh. But I love your point that training happens everywhere. I try to apply that to our everyday life, and I do believe it makes a difference. Here’s to a more successful February…

By: Jodi

Jodi — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:18:44 +0000

My hat is off to you for training three dogs. I have a hard time training two. No matter whose name I call, they both come and heaven help me if I pull out a treat, because no matter who it is intended for, the treat is Delilah’s.

When I tried to do a little scent work training on one of the super cold days, I had to lock them both in the bedroom and let them out one at a time. Even then at the end Delilah busted the gate down and ran on to the course. 🙂

By: kristine

kristine — Mon, 03 Feb 2014 00:04:03 +0000

I’d volunteer in a second!

It sounds to me like you really challengedo yourself and Honey this month, with training in different environments and even bringing in other dogs. It is interesting that Honey also have behaviours she only practices with your husband and others. But if Shiva can learn not to jump on strangers, Honey can too. After all, only one of these dogs has her CGC and it isn’t the spotted one.

Thanks for running this great challenge once more. I needed the inspiration!

By: Train Your Dog Month Challenge - All You Have is Each Other | Rescued Insanity

Sun, 02 Feb 2014 22:17:58 +0000

[…] week. While you are there, make sure to read about the challenges faced by my talented co-hosts at Something Wagging This Way Comes and Alfie’s Blog, as well as by all the other participants. You may be newly inspired to join […]

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 16:40:51 +0000

So true about the generalization! Maya is exactly like Honey in that she knows not to jump on me but doesn’t understand she’s not supposed to jump on other people either. It has been difficult to teach her this because she can learn not to jump on certain people, but whenever we meet someone new I have to re-teach her!

I get what you’re saying about training more than one dog at a time. I sometimes have to train Maya and Pierson separately, especially when it comes to walking and dealing with their leash reactive behavior. It does help, however, to trick train them both together because they learn from one another.

By: Golden Woofs: Sugar

Golden Woofs: Sugar — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 15:28:06 +0000

So true about Training Happens Everywhere. It’s a continuos learning and bonding experience. Creating “creative’ activities with Sugar is very challenging. Even though Sugar is a senior, she is active. We think her 2 surgeries provided her more energy 🙂 Since she is a senior, been doing lots of “mind” stimulating (calming) activities with her. I did a post on the puzzle treat game. I posted several “homemade games” videos on our IG account (I re-posted 2 on our FB Page. We are happy to participate again on your hop again. Golden Woofs

By: Linda - Alfie's Blog

Linda - Alfie's Blog — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 03:08:26 +0000

Colds, working late, snow and achy ankles are no fun but sounds like you’ve had a pawsome ‘pack’ to keep you company! Funny you should mention that dogs don’t generalise well – in our house Alfie takes every opportunity to beg my husband, or any poor house guest we might have, for a game of fetch or tug. He knows I won’t play if he pushes the toy in my hand, but he is an opportunist and will play with anyone who gives in. I always looked at it as him being smart, testing what he can get away with rather than being bad at generalising! 🙂

By: Sand Spring Chesapeakes

Sand Spring Chesapeakes — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 23:41:25 +0000

I did you did a great job on this post and I hope the next month is better for you.

By: Terry Cramer

Terry Cramer — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 21:35:04 +0000

It sounds like a rough month that you turned around! Thanks for doing this!

All our best, Terry (human), Kes and Livvie (rescued rat terriers)
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