[nagdu] coming on command - was no follow up

[Eve Sanchez]

Daniel, Your story reminded me of the night my pit got out. He roamed
the neighborhood, just checking things out, but he refused to come to
me. Stayed close, but wouldn't come. My neighbor saw that he was out
and came to help. He gives Frisco and Roger, his chihuahua buddy,
treats through the fence all the time and they are good friends.
Wouldn't you know it? Frisco walked right up to him and let Roger, the
neighbor, walk him to the door. I do not think that it is because he
was not me, but rather, that Roger (the human) calls him often for
treats which is a good thing. I call him to do something with him. I
started thinking about this and one of the things I do with my guide
dog all of the time is play fetch. Playing fetch means she needs to
come to me when I call to give me the ball or I won't be able to throw
it again. The dogs learn who calls them for pleasurable things vs.
stuff they may not want to do. Maybe another good suggestion for my
friend and anyone else is to play with the dogs.  I was going to
respond to someone else too, but I have been trying to do this for
some time now with my computer refusing to let me comment and now I
have forgotten what else I was going to say and to who.    Oh yeah, I
am not going to psychoanalyse my friend- whoever that is for. haha
Blessings all. Eve                                       DYOURMINDDMM

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Daniel <daniel.sweeney1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi Eve and everyone,
>
>
>
> I was having the same problems with having Cass coming to me when I called,
> and to some extent still do. Although I never allow her to be off leash in
> the common area behind my townhome, I will go out on a 25 foot leash and
> practice recall with food treats. This is what my field rep advised me when
> she visited me on my second month home after complaining about this problem.
> I explained to her that I was having problems with recall both in and out of
> the house. After returning home and keeping Cass on leash for about 5 weeks,
> I let her off and when I called her she would not come to me. We would do
> obedience training, sit, down, stay, and come at short distances and she
> would do just fine, but when we were at ease she would not come to me when I
> called. Talk about frustrating - to be upstairs and call and have no dog
> come, or to be ten feet away and call her to come to me and she would just
> ignore me. Things really came to a head when I went to a friend's house and
> she was playing in the yard with his dogs. He called his dogs to come in and
> Cass refused to come inside. He went to the back door and she would run from
> my friend. I went to the door and she would ignore my command to come
> inside. I finally was able to get her to come inside by filling her food
> bowl, and then snagging her with the leash. That was the last time she was
> off leash until the field rep came. We started working with high value food
> rewards. This has seemed to work for the most part, but there are still some
> occasional instances where she will stay just out of my reach when I call
> her, and not come to me as if I am playing a game. Needless to say this
> really ticks me off since I have never had a dog that has done this. I have
> had quite a few dogs. She has a HUGE stubborn streak. I would never let her
> be off leash outside unless the area was securely enclosed, and then only
> with hesitation. I am just glad she is food motivated. The fact that we have
> only been together for a bit over 4 months lets me think that in time she
> will become a little more attached and this problem will solve itself.
>
> I apologize for the long winded emails, but when I get going, I really get
> going.
>
> Daniel and Cass
>
>
>
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