Steadiness at home
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Steadiness at home
This might be a newbie question but I see a lot of talk about steadiness in the field, but rarely see talk but steadiness at home. I realize that these are two different in nature but how do you promote a calm steady dog at the house that transfers over to the field. I guess what I am looking for here is ways that you have helped your pups mature in and out of the field. My dog seems to be steadier in the field than at home where there is actually a more structured environment.
I guess steadiness at home should really be obedience at home...
I guess steadiness at home should really be obedience at home...
Re: Steadiness at home
Keep 'em really tired
- Bluesky2012
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Steadiness at home
Steadiness is obedience no matter the location.Vikingoo168 wrote:This might be a newbie question but I see a lot of talk about steadiness in the field, but rarely see talk but steadiness at home. I realize that these are two different in nature but how do you promote a calm steady dog at the house that transfers over to the field. I guess what I am looking for here is ways that you have helped your pups mature in and out of the field. My dog seems to be steadier in the field than at home where there is actually a more structured environment.
I guess steadiness at home should really be obedience at home...
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Put a leash on the dog in the house when u sit and read or watch TV in the evenings, make them lay by your feet...put the leash under or around your foot.....when they do well give them a bone or pigs ear or whatever they like that keeps them occupied and tell them gooood......
Soon you have a calmer dog that lays patiently by your feet.
Soon you have a calmer dog that lays patiently by your feet.
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Re: Steadiness at home
This actually sounds like it would work. The problem is not obedience as much as just teaching the dog to be calm in a small space (i.e. house). I have been using a crate to get some peace from my very active field bred english cocker but it is not teaching her to be calm outside her crate so I think this may be just the ticket to help make her more of a couch potato at homebirddog1968 wrote:Put a leash on the dog in the house when u sit and read or watch TV in the evenings, make them lay by your feet...put the leash under or around your foot.....when they do well give them a bone or pigs ear or whatever they like that keeps them occupied and tell them gooood......
Soon you have a calmer dog that lays patiently by your feet.
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Re: Steadiness at home
You and me both - my cocker takes frequent time outs in his crate throughout the day to give me some peace. He doesn't know enough to lay down and relax so the crate is the only time he will do that. I will say though he is getting better with age. He's 19 months now, I have heard from a few folks I train with that they are a lot less "annoying" after the 2 year mark. I'm sure he won't slow much, but I wouldn't be against him laying down from time to time instead of doing the body wag at 90mph all the time hahaha.chrokeva wrote:This actually sounds like it would work. The problem is not obedience as much as just teaching the dog to be calm in a small space (i.e. house). I have been using a crate to get some peace from my very active field bred english cocker but it is not teaching her to be calm outside her crate so I think this may be just the ticket to help make her more of a couch potato at homebirddog1968 wrote:Put a leash on the dog in the house when u sit and read or watch TV in the evenings, make them lay by your feet...put the leash under or around your foot.....when they do well give them a bone or pigs ear or whatever they like that keeps them occupied and tell them gooood......
Soon you have a calmer dog that lays patiently by your feet.
Cass
"If you train a young dog for momentum, precision will arrive. If you train for precision, demanding perfection, momentum will depart." - Rex Carr
"If you train a young dog for momentum, precision will arrive. If you train for precision, demanding perfection, momentum will depart." - Rex Carr
Re: Steadiness at home
Our yellow lab female spent much of her first 18 months taking time-outs on leash in the house. If she got too wired up, she went on the leash and it seemed to calm her down and 'ground' her somehow. I think when left to make her own decisions about what to do next, she would pick BAD STUFF. When I was directing her activities more, she was calmer and nicer to live with. I have never had to do this exercise with any of our other 5 gundogs, but this one needed more direction and help to be quiet and calm in the house. After age 2 she has been great, but left to her own devices, I don't know if she ever would have chosen calmness as a regular behaviour.
Steadiness at home
Tired dogs are happy dogs. I run my dog so when we get home, he just wants a nap lol
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Re: Steadiness at home
I run mine too... he'll run behind the atv for 10 km and is still wound up for the day. Easier to tire him mentally than physically
Cass
"If you train a young dog for momentum, precision will arrive. If you train for precision, demanding perfection, momentum will depart." - Rex Carr
"If you train a young dog for momentum, precision will arrive. If you train for precision, demanding perfection, momentum will depart." - Rex Carr
Steadiness at home
That's a post worth a billion dollars. That's why I do agility and tricks lol.CDN_Cocker wrote:I run mine too... he'll run behind the atv for 10 km and is still wound up for the day. Easier to tire him mentally than physically