Comments on: Disobedient Dog: What To Do When Your Dog Won’t Obey You

By: Teri

Teri — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:45:01 +0000

Sometimes my dog sneaks by me when I open the gate and he runs down the street, sometimes I have to get in the car to go get him, help me please.

By: Kimmie

Kimmie — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 19:09:08 +0000

In reply to Pippa Mattinson. Hi Pippa. I know this post is old but I need help. I have a 12 month old female pitbull. I have completely trained my dog. She has to follow a command before she come out of/goes back in the kennel, walk out the front door, and before she eats. I know you have to be consistent. If she doesnt follow my command I walk away and come back when she is calm. Lately its been becoming a pain in my toosh. I have always made her lay down to eat. Both back legs have to be flat on the floor and front. There are times she goes ahead and lay all the way down so i can tap her bowl to eat. But Lately when I say lay down she will only squat. I dont repeat myself. I give a aht aht if she doent obey. I walk away. She will bark and whine for 30-45 minutes. When she is quite. I come back. She does it again. I walk away. She goes on for another 45 minutes. When she is calm I come back. She will not move. She will lay down wait for my command and all. I dont agree that dogs dont do things out of spite. If she knows how to hide her poop under a cover. She knows when she doesn't want to listen. I wait 3 minutes for her to be quite to return to her with food. Now she has a enough sense and soon as 3 minutes hits on my timer (she cant hear it) she starts to go off again like hey your not moving fast enough. I will be crazy to let that dog think she will run me...please help. It shouldn't take 3-4 to try and feed my dog 1 bowl of food

By: Maria

Maria — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:20:30 +0000

This is a very helpful article. I got a dog one month ago, and he is about one year old. He was a stray, born on the street, and while the first two weeks with me, he was challenging in some ways, the next two weeks were wonderful. The last few days, however, he has become “disobedient” in a particular circumstance : when I need to leave the house, for work or running errands, he will not come when I call him, to the point that I am late for work. Intuitively this morning I figured out that I simply have to take control and put him on the leash and briskly walk him back in the house with encouraging words, from now on. Then when I read your article, I was greatly reassured to read the detailed instruction about using a lead to retrain and to take control of where the dog gets his rewards. Indeed, it makes perfect sense to me that he would rather lounge in the grass outside, the come inside when he feels it’s the moment that I am going to leave the house and he has to stay inside. Thank you, and wish us luck!

By: debra

debra — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 20:57:09 +0000

my gs is great on the leash but just going out in my yard or playing she eventually jumps and bites and rips skin off she is a shelter dog one and a half years old Ive had her for about two months have trained her on the leash but when were not training shes wild I don’t know if I can keep her once she starts to jump I have to grab her drag her to the door so she wont hurt me and go inside what can I do help!!

By: Pippa Mattinson

Pippa Mattinson — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:39:33 +0000

In reply to Brittany. Hi there, for help with the topics covered in this article you are very welcome to join the forum. We have professional trainers there plus you'll get lots of advice and support from experienced puppy and dog owners ?

By: Brittany

Brittany — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 12:20:39 +0000

Hi Pippa, I know this is an old thread, it I have just read and found this very interesting. I’m looking for some help.
I have a 3 and a half year old golden retriever. As a puppy she suffered from extreme separation anxiety, because she was constantly by the owners side. Now that I have taken over the training with her owner, her separation anxiety has been completely diminished, and we have established quite a lot of control over the dog (when we are near her). But, I’m finding that every time I really WANT to reward her and give her my attention, she chooses to act out and do things she knows she is not allowed to do. (i.e, I command her to lay in her bed, a few minutes later I allow her to come sit in the living room with me on my command, but sometimes she tests me and walks right on to the rug.) This is an area where she KNOWS she is not allowed to be. She has been trained to stay off, yet she still tries to do it sometimes. Normally she does things like this when she thinks I am very happy with her for behaving.. so she takes that as a “I can do what I want now because She’s giving me attention”.
It seems as if she mostly misbehaves when we are giving her attention, she knows we’re happy with her, or we’re trying to bond with her.
This is one of the biggest issues we have with the dog. It seems most of our problems come from her “testing” our limits during a time where she knows she should be obeying to us.
My conclusion in this is that I believe she is acting out and disobeying during times of attention/happiness, because she links that to her previous non-existent training. She may be linking our happy attitude to what she was allowed to do in the past. because in the past when we had a happy/upbeat attitude and giving her attention all the time, she was essentially allowed to do whatever she wanted. (Human=Happy? Okay, this is just like they used to be, I can do what I want now.) as you know, this can be a vicious cycle. Because we want to give the dog attention, but we know if we do, she immediately takes that as her cue to disobey, therefore leading us to be less inclined to give her attention.. and therefore leading to an unhappy dog.
Do you think this may be the case? Is she linking her experienced behaviours from the past, to our attitudes today?
Any advice on this would be great, I have been trying to work at this for months and months on my own.
Thanks, Brittany

By: Kay

Kay — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:41:10 +0000

In reply to Marilyn Clark.

Leave his training collar on? For openers? Secondly….. what doYOUu do when he comes right back to the kitchen? Or does not obey (a second time) after he’s complied the first time ….then gone on and done exactly as he pleases? Obviously whatever that behavior on your part is (or lack of behavior, if you’ve done nothing) isn’t working. So….what WILL work? Reread the material above. Do you need to be doing more (basic) training? Rewarding more? Putting him on a leash or line — and then asking him to respond? Add a new behavior on YOUR part? “No” means “don’t do it .” “Phooey” means “you’ve done the wrong thing — try something different.” I have a friend who wears a dog whistle. Two quick tweets mean — “phooey!” I can picture him blowing his whistle quickly twice were his large terrier walked into the kitchen, lets say, followed with some word or phrase like “Go back!” or “OUT!” A few times of immediate reinforcement, and I expect his Airedale would stay out of the kitchen. (By the way, by any chance, is his water bowl/food dish on the kitchen floor, hmmm? Or is he fed somewhere else?) The main thing — regular, kindly, ongoing, effective training off leash if that works BUT onleash UNTIL it does. Read up, also, on clicker training if you are of a mind to. The “click” tells the dog instantly he/she is doing something right.

By: Josephine

Josephine — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:08:26 +0000

In reply to Vili. I have a similar situation my dog is a shepherd mix she’s a rescue it’s hard for me to walk her also she doesn’t like people or other animals. Did the trainer respond to you

By: Marilyn Clark

Marilyn Clark — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 22:24:38 +0000

I have a german shepherd rottweiler mix. He is 2 years old. When have his training collar on, he minds perfectly (I have not had to use it but twice, just putting it on works. He totally understand the commands and obeys (off leash as well) every command – slowly, he will never have heart failure, it takes him a full 10 seconds for him to sit or down or anything, but he does it. Without the collar, he minds when he wants. I tell him to leave the kitchen (which he knows he is supposed to do), he will walk away, turn around and come right back. With the collar on, he leaves and goes to the living room and lays down. Without the collar, it takes him 30 seconds or more to sit, down, etc.. He is paying attention, I know that for a fact, he just doesn’t do. What can I do?

By: Vili

Vili — Sat, 15 Dec 2018 01:04:03 +0000

Hi,I’m from a country which animal are not loved at all as the result owners have lots of problem with having pets. My dog is mix spitz from his childhood he used to bite us and still he does it he’s so stone headed and does just whatever he like.sometimes he takes our socks or… And starts running he wanted us to chase him and I think he wants to take our attention. We cannot walk him outdoor. Sometimes he’s over excited. He barks to everything people at street strangers motorcycles….people going and coming behind the apartment door.doorbell,,, i think he scares help me plz I dont know what should I do. When he jumps or bites us the more we say no or become angry the more he insists and continue doing that