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Check out the puppy series https://robertcabral.com/puppy-training/ also check parts 1 and 2 of this Rio lesson https://robertcabral.com/courses/controlling-a-high-drive-dog-rio-part-one/
Generally… you have to be more interesting, establish a relationship where good things happen around you, and issue the right amount of correction when he starts to sniff around when the expected behavior is the walk, balancing it so that it is not too much. I would not expect perfection, not even Robert’s dogs are perfect 🙂
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You mean he plays with his own poop? I would just reach in and pick it up before he has a change to turn around. That way he knows that once it is out it is daddy’s… LOL
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Another approach is to do the normal potty training. Crate him in a crate that is small enough that if he pees or poops he will soil himself. Start with very frequent breaks — a couple of hours during the day and 3 to 4 hours tops at night — meaning he has no water for a couple of hours before bed time, has a bathroom break, and goes to bed. Then you only have to wake up once during the night to take him out. If there are no accidents in 4-5 days increase the time by 1/2 hour. Main tool is to go from crate to outdoors and limiting the time outside the crate to minimize accidents. It is a bit harder with #2, pardon the pun, but it is the same idea. The key is that his body will have a rhythm, say 30 mins after he wakes up and 20 mins after dinner the trains will be ready!!! Whenever he has an accident ask yourself what you could have done differently. Lots of patience. It will take quite a while for he to get the idea an be good at it. Good luck!
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At 11 weeks I would totally ignore the barking so that he/she realizes it does not have an effect. However, if anyone in the household acknowledges it in any way shape or form… that approach may not work. As he/she grows older you will be able to fix it, if it continues, but at 11 weeks I try to avoid corrections for things that are not consequential and that can be fixed later. No doubt others may have different opinions 🙂
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If the dog is tough you still have a few tools. If you can read the dog well, timing can make up for intensity. Similarly distance can kind of make up for less than perfect timing because the stimulus is lower. If all else fails preparedness and posture and a loose leash can help you deliver an effective correction, but when the line is taught, well the learning/teaching opportunity is already lost, and we are left with managing the situation as best we can
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Also, in terms of character, sometimes a person is too intense for a dog, a dog is too intense for a person or a dog is too intense for another dog. The first and the last can be kind of managed, but they are all not ideal. So, given the choice, you kind of want to match the temperaments.
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They are coy, tentative, insecure, afraid to make mistakes.
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That is strange. I would be very interested in what Robert and others have to say. Perhaps you submit the question via the AMA form. We use different training methods and different tools all the time and the dogs are cool with it. For general behavior we are balanced. For agility we are clicker and mostly positive. The only thing I can think is if you are doing the “homework” balanced and then when in class doing positive. That I think would not work. So, like us, for example, the agility training is clicker based, so all our training for agility at home is also clicker. Could that be the issue? BTW the trainer wanting to start from zero sounds like either he/she wanted the extra money, or was emotionally vested in teaching __you__ a lesson — from his/her perspective, of course.
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Robert says… that is what they do, don’t be harsh to the puppy, wear gardening gloves if you have sensitive hands. He/she will do it for the first year. Also to do less damage to your hand check out different ways to hold the treat. If that is all he/she is doing you got an angel 😇
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Speaking of what I just played with my puppy and he nipped my right ear, my left year, my left cheek and my nose… all in less than a minute. Lol