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FIND OUT SOME KEY BASICS THAT WILL HELP
YOU TRAIN YOUR DOG TO COME ON COMMAND.
STUBBORN OR NOT?
By Rebecca Mason CPDT-KA, CTDI, M.Ed.
than anything else when I ask students
assumes that the dog is doing something
just to spite their human—a common
for doing what they do, and it usually has
Your dog may not respond because he is
distracted by something in his environment,
or because he wasn’t looking at you when
you gave him the cue; he may be tired or
not feeling well, or may not be sure of what
having systematically taught them these
that the dog has discovered the great big
world, coming to someone’s beck and call
understood the meaning, and he was never
PHOTO COURTESY OF REBECCA MASON
bottom step is teaching the dog what the
gradually, slowly moving up the staircase
you add distractions, don’t add distance at
Distance and distractions should be worked
doesn’t come away from the fence when
owners try to hop from the bottom step of
set your dog up for success, and remember
this starts with reasonable expectations and
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