Labradoodle & Goldendoodle Forum
Do any of you have persons, places or things that hamper your training efforts with your Doodles?
I find that my DH, bless his heart, even though he has the best of intentions, constantly undermines our (my?) training efforts with Tara.
A couple of days ago we were in the car stopped at a parking lot at a store. I was planning to stay in the car with Tara and DH was going to go inside. Tara looked at him questioning if she could go with him,. At that point he gave her the 'Stay" command which was not appropriate. She would have had to stay frozen in that spot until he returned to release her. I have been trying (for a 1 1/2 years now) to teach her both "stay" and "wait" but he uses them interchangeably. Thereby negating the usefulness of either. FRUSTRATING!!!!
He is retired and spends a lot of time with Tara so short of murder or divorce I am not sure how to resolve this. :(
We also have a neighbor who loves Tara and encourages her to jump on him. He knows we don't approve but he says "it's okay if she jumps on Uncle Jimmy". He recently lost his own dog to cancer and comes to our house to get "loves" from Tara. Due to his loss we have pretty much kept quiet about it. But we know that it is confusing for her and she doesn't understand that it is "okay" (his opinion) to jump on him but not anyone else.
Do any of you have similar issues that you are challenged with in your training efforts and what solutions have you found?
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