Thread: Teaching NO !

What else does no mean

Originally Posted by upnorth uplander

What else does no mean

lets just say hypothetically some one does not got to the time to teach no means stop, and maybe they have tort a slight negative association to no ,,,, easy to do since you dont jump and down all happy saying no do we ?
but we have a stop response because the negative response over time has made the dog just stop doing what it was doing ,,,kinda freeze or .....

now your gonna use your no command in day to day training and hunting . or around the house type stuff examples

dog jumps up on you , you say no,, does the dog relate the no to jumping up or to being on or near you ,
a even better example ,, your having some kind of trouble when you introduce the dog to scent , first time on scent the dog does not stop , you run out stop the dog from hunting a yell no because the dog did no stop ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, does the dog understand that said no because it did not stop or because it was hunting ?

Sorry I don't think I explained generalising very well.

Example (not huntiing dogs) Mrs B: "But my dog is so good at sit-stays at home!"

He might very well be, but if he has only practiced at home and not outside, on different surfaces, for different durations, from different distances, with different distractions, then we cannot expect him to do it perfectly first time like he does at home.

Another example: teaching pooch to wait at the door for you to go through first. He might do this every single time 100 times in a row. Go to the back gate where, to you and me, the concept is exactly the same. Without management he might rush straight in right past yoU!

Biscuit on the nose till you say Tussock.

Originally Posted by Tussock

Ok, bit of a funny one for me, she might not eat it. The labrador is not strong in this one.

Whaaaaaaaaaat!

My flatmates are a bit retarded so a dog sitting patiently at the door with his legs crossed isn't enough to tell them that they might need to let him out for a piss. So we're working on Jet ringing a bell when he wants out for the toilet.

Barking with a visual cue is a cool trick to teach! My cue is a flick of my fingers, like how you might flick a crumb with your index finger and thumb.

i understand what yous are saying and thanks for the replys , to prove your point though you dont need to flim the trick you only need to film the correction ,,
and your not going to use the word no to prove your point ,