Dutch Shepherd Forum

Hope is our first DS. Just got back from trainer and is smart as a whip. I put her in a down in the house and her toy was across the room, she kept staring at it and I again told her down. She stayed down but stretched, rolled and moved close to it. I told her again down so she stayed down and belly crawled the last 2' to try and get it. I couldn't help but laugh. She is alot of fun and decided she doesnt like garbage cans or ironing boards. She is gonna be challenge!

Yep, they are a lot of fun!

Tmacfire wrote:She is alot of fun and decided she doesnt like garbage cans or ironing boards. She is gonna be challenge!

Congrats on the new pup! They all tend to go through a stage where they "don't like" normal things. I think this is when socializing becomes very important!

Cute! Sugar does the belly crawl too. It didn't take much to teach her to do it on command and I bet you could too. All the kids love watching that trick! (But do it on a carpet or grass)

whaha, funny pup!

but....
on the serious side, I never give my pup a command if I'm not in control. She already learned "down" means you get to do whatever you want as long as you look cute and stay low Being so smart, they learn fast So practise without a toy first, or put a leash on, or... use a "loose" command. I have this for healing; "naast" (Dutch for "next to me") is the walking around hiking or whatever command, stick with me but okay to look around and sniff a bit. At the training field I use "voet" (foot in Dutch) for obedience-healing No looking away, no sniffing the ground, no nothing but stickin' to my leg