[nagdu] Defiant poodles running away from corrections

[Kerri Stovall]

Hi all,
As most of you may know, my husband and I both received poodles from Pilot Dogs back in April. We have just begun to let them off leash in the house as of a couple weeks ago, and I do know that this is just the beginning of their learning process for house manners. So, my question is this. How can we keep them from running from us when they know we are unhappy with their behavior. Here's a little of an idea of what's happening. As I now understand more fully, poodles are barkers, and they will bark at anything they hear or see that they are interested in, so pulling shades down doesn't work because the shades are already down, but they bark mostly at audible noises, like the air conditioning unit rattling or something like that. It's not every minute or anything like that, but it's often enough and they keep it up long enough to get to interfering with things. So when we tell them quiet several times and it doesn't work, then we will try calling them to us, but of course they know they are not behaving so they run the opposite way, even if the word no is used for other things than barking, any kind of misbehaving they will run away from us when we want to call them to us to distract them. They also will try to play with us by jumping around just out of reach, when they know we are unhappy with them. So I'm wondering, is it time to go back on leash for a while? I want to be able to do instant corrections or whatever else I can do with my dog, and I'm not sure if Lee will be up for it, but I hope so, so that he can get a handle on it. They are stellar dogs when they're apart, but when together their come command needs a lot of work because alb they want to do is play. lol.  Now my dog, she will still run away from me even when Lee isn't home or when his dog is elsewhere in the house, if she knows that I'm about to get onto her for something. I never correct her for coming to me though, I make sure the come command is always rewarded instead of corrected. But I just want her to come to me so that I can distract her from whatever she's doing wrong. Any help would be great. Thank you to all.
Kerri and Sadie


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