Rashmi, I think that one of the ways that this can happen is when a dog lives in an environment where there are multiple people within the dogs life (pack) and giving it commands. The dog kinda gets used to many people telling it what to do. The only way that you can prevent this is to be the only one that the dog has contact with as far as training is concerned & even then some dogs are more biddable to people. The only way to fix this would be to correct the dog when a command is given by someone other than you that the dog listens to. My female will usually only listen to me & to my son, some of the time, (she was raised with him living in the house at that time)& sees him freequently now. As far as anyone else that she knows & has a relationship with (my friends that she sees often)giving her commands...she may occasionally listen if she feels like it or not. I do not praise her or repremand her when she does either. I pretty much ignor it. I don't particularly want her to listen to anyone except me (& my son in my absence) but she also doesn't do it enough at this point to correct her for complying. If she were to listen with some regularity, I might consider correcting her. My male is pretty indifferent & aloof to others. He will very rarely listen to my son that he sees freequently. He is not too interested in bothering with others, especially strangers, let alone listen to them if they give him a command.
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I love that -- "He figures a ball is gonna pop out sooner or later if he does what people say."Al Curbow said:
I have one of those, but he figures a treat will pop out. He will even go through a routine WITHOUT commands, of sitting very straight and very much in the line of vision, because he has learned to do a calm sit while their food is being prepared.
But I have a question. Total strangers are giving commands to your dog?
(Rashmi did not mention family members; she said "strangers.")
P.S. My experience, which is NOT implying that this is Rashmi's experience: When my dogs came to me, untrained, and jumped up on people in greeting, lots of strangers commanded.
Once that was stopped and they were trained, strangers did not try to command them. :lol: :lol:
Mine would too. OTOH, back in his jumping-on-people days, he wouldn't. That was before he learned how treats happened. :lol:Al Curbow said:
Your post also reminded me of my Luna, now gone, who was always alert to a car door opening. Any car. Anywhere.
She heeled off-lead, except for this one thing. If a car door opened along the sidewalk, she'd hop in like a flash.
Food and car trips were her heavens on earth! 90% of the pictures I have of her feature a wide grin.
And, like your guy, "her ob was great and she was a fun dog."
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I was forced into this by an autistic dog, but now that you mention it, I must admit I kind of like it. Call me egotistical . It all depends on the purpose, of course, but I think a PPD should be quite selective. You don't want him listening when the bad guy tells him to stop biting :lol: . I think it also depends on the dog's personality, but correcting is probably the only way to go, unfortunately. Maybe if you told strangers specifically not go command him at all, he'd not listen to them b/c he wasn't accustomed to it, but if you really need reliability, correcting for it is probably a necessary evil.
. It all depends on the purpose, of course, but I think a PPD should be quite selective. You don't want him listening when the bad guy tells him to stop biting :lol: . I think it also depends on the dog's personality, but correcting is probably the only way to go, unfortunately. Maybe if you told strangers specifically not go command him at all, he'd not listen to them b/c he wasn't accustomed to it, but if you really need reliability, correcting for it is probably a necessary evil.1 - 11 of 11 Posts
