felixone123 wrote:FlipFlop wrote:Can you tell us how you trained him to stay in his bed until you tell him he can get up? Would love to know! Thanks
All I know is if he got up and came to either side of our bed we totally ignored him and told him to go lie down - each and every time and if he ventured out of the room we called him back and again told him to lie down. Not sure if that qualifies as training?
...And you did it just right! What you allow, you train. Not reinforcing him for getting up and praising him for staying where he belongs worked very well.
You can also use your "place" command for this kind of thing...in our case, it's "rug." So, any dog bed or ruggy kind of thing is called a rug, including Geyser's mattress bed thing, and you just say, "go rug," as long as you've trained it to mean "stay there until released." You remind them if they get up without permission, etc.
This kind of stuff works well, too, if you don't want your dog telling you when it's time to get up. My rule is I determine when it's time to get up, period. When my spousal unit gets up, he then tells Geyser she can get up on the bed with me, and she'll touch my face once then lie down and go back to sleep, and doesn't even think about messing with me until I wake up and stretch and invite her over. Then it's all that happy good morning petting stuff
You've done great with the cats...persistence pays!!!
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