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Melinda Shore:

[nq:1]Are you seriously asking me how to train a dog not to *** in the house, not to jump on people, to stay, and to come off-lead?[/nq]
No, I'm asking how you train a dog. So far you haven't said, other than saying that if your dogs don't comply the consequences would be too awful. I don't know what you mean by "too awful."

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rw:

[nq:2]Are you seriously asking me how to train a dog ... to jump on people, to stay, and to come off-lead?[/nq]
[nq:1]No, I'm asking how you train a dog. So far you haven't said, other than saying that if your dogs don't comply the consequences would be too awful. I don't know what you mean by "too awful."[/nq]
In the case of my extremely sensitive, eager-to-please Border Collie, "too awful" would amount to a stern "no" and maybe a wag of my finger, which would send her into a blue funk until I told her everything was OK. My Golden, who is somewhat harder, would probably need something a little harsher. I might, for example, tell him to stay, walk up to him, take him by the muzzle and, while forcing him to look at me, give him a good "lecture".
I don't beat my dogs, if that's what you're getting at. In the past, however, I've had extremely hard dogs that have required sterner measures to keep them out of trouble. One particularly troublesome Malamute comes to mind. Nowadays I avoid such hard-to-train breeds (although I still find Malamutes, Siberians, Akitas, etc. to be fascinating and no, they're not ALL hard to train). They're too much trouble (for me) and I don't enjoy doing what it takes to make them behave. My dogs are nearly always off-lead and under voice or hand-signal command. If a dog can't be trained to behave off-lead without a huge amount of work, I'm not interested in owning it. But each to his own.

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Melinda Shore:

[nq:1]I don't beat my dogs, if that's what you're getting at.[/nq]
I'm asking. "Too awful" is not a particularly good way to describe corrections to someone who's looking for training advice. People who don't know better tend to err on the side of harshness. Basically, you haven't been giving advice, you've been posturing.
[nq:1]Nowadays I avoid such hard-to-train breeds (although I still find Malamutes, Siberians, Akitas, etc. to be fascinating and no, they're not ALL hard to train).[/nq]
No! Really? Tell me more!

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rw:

[nq:1]No! Really? Tell me more![/nq]
What would you like to know?

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Suja:

[nq:1]I just did the arithmetic - ~315 lbs of dog in a 1500 sf house.[/nq]
I really should ask this on the Dane board. I bet I'll get some really interesting answers. I'll post the 'best' responses.
[nq:1]There are two obvious choices and several more not-so- obvious choices, but generally one might guess that the dog is of an arctic persuasion.[/nq]
Figured you'd recognize that. Oh, and I left out the part where he is starting to jump on her and mouth her hands. He's being such a butt right now.
Suja

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Melinda Shore:

[nq:1]Figured you'd recognize that. Oh, and I left out the part where he is starting to jump on her and mouth her hands. He's being such a butt right now.[/nq]
Unfortunately they have really long adolescences.
Fortunately it does end eventually and the dogs have very good life expectancies, as dogs go.
Emmett was a teenager from hell. Really, he was an unbelievably destructive youngster. Now, not only is he well-behaved and obedient, he's also a mellow, low-key dog who has a calming effect on the others. I never would have believed it could happen.

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Mary Healey:

[nq:1]...My Golden, who is somewhat harder, would probably need something a little harsher. I might, for example, tell him to stay, walk up to him, take him by the muzzle and, while forcing him to look at me, give him a good "lecture".[/nq]
You'd scold him after he stayed when you told him to do so? How ... interesting.

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Suja:

[nq:1]Unfortunately they have really long adolescences.[/nq]
The owner knows. I'm quite impressed with her, actually. She is around 20 years old, and doing all the right things. What Satchmo needs desperately is a playmate, which she cannot do until she gets a real job. If there are
10 dogs at the dog park, he will run every single one of them into theground (my two excepted - he is unsure about Khan, and Pan doesn't have the same play style) and still be raring to go.
[nq:1]Fortunately it does end eventually and the dogs have very good life expectancies, as dogs go.[/nq]
He is a really lovely, good natured dog. Just being a bratty teenager, and the owner is a little bit frustrated, because it is like she has a whole new dog.
Suja

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Melinda Shore:

[nq:1]He is a really lovely, good natured dog. Just being a bratty teenager, and the owner is a little bit frustrated, because it is like she has a whole new dog.[/nq]
He's getting old enough to be introduced to scootering or some such. Exercise is really important and cavorting at a dog park is fun but probably isn't going to be enough.
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