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    Sitting for the leash thing -- don't know if this might be your issue....Shadow and I have been together for several years now. He doesn't wear a collar in the house but when we go for walks, on goes the collar and then the harness. He would prance away several times. Either I'd direct him to the couch where he likes to hangout or I'd just sit on the chair waiting for him to calm down.

    But, then just recently a light bulb blinked on....the collar clicks open/closed loudly right by his ear!!! If I shut it closed and then slip it over his head, he is calmer. I've begun to close the collar when I take it off the hook. Now that he realizes that noisy scary thing is no longer happening by his ear, he is so much easier to leash!!! I now say "door" and he is starting to wait by it for me to harness -- just like at the dogpark!!!

    Note: In the past, I'd done the treat thing where you hold the collar with the treat in the circle so the dog slips his head into the collar but when I was doing it -- the collar was closed so we never had problems during training sessions. It was only when I'd wrap it around his neck and click it shut. Such a simple thing to fix.

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    Quote Originally Posted by swanska View Post
    Sitting for the leash thing -- don't know if this might be your issue....Shadow and I have been together for several years now. He doesn't wear a collar in the house but when we go for walks, on goes the collar and then the harness. He would prance away several times. Either I'd direct him to the couch where he likes to hangout or I'd just sit on the chair waiting for him to calm down.

    But, then just recently a light bulb blinked on....the collar clicks open/closed loudly right by his ear!!! If I shut it closed and then slip it over his head, he is calmer. I've begun to close the collar when I take it off the hook. Now that he realizes that noisy scary thing is no longer happening by his ear, he is so much easier to leash!!! I now say "door" and he is starting to wait by it for me to harness -- just like at the dogpark!!!

    Note: In the past, I'd done the treat thing where you hold the collar with the treat in the circle so the dog slips his head into the collar but when I was doing it -- the collar was closed so we never had problems during training sessions. It was only when I'd wrap it around his neck and click it shut. Such a simple thing to fix.
    Hmm, I'll have to try that for his harness. He does wear his collar in the house (it just makes it easier to get his leash on since he tends to wait until the last minute and then decides he has to go), but for his harness, he will NOT sit still no matter what I do. I'm almost at the point of buying a bigger one (he's about to the end of this one), so maybe that will help? I haven't heard about the treat thing though - I'll have to modify that to work with the harness
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    If my dog were putting teeth on my arm like I that, I would give him a squirt of Bitter Apple directly in the mouth with a firm "no bite". You would have to have the bottle beside you so you don't have to get up and look for it because that would ruin the timing but I bet you would only need to do it a couple times to get the message across. Before everyone gets excited, yes I know you're supposed to spray the object with Bitter Apple but I used this method on the advice of a trainer whose opinion I respect and it worked. I bore the brunt of Sam's horrible puppy behavior and I know it's not fun. The OP mentioned her dad wants her to give the dog up. If it's come to those conversations, a couple squirts of bitter apple directly in the mouth are really no big deal. JMHO.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Georgia View Post
    If my dog were putting teeth on my arm like I that, I would give him a squirt of Bitter Apple directly in the mouth with a firm "no bite". You would have to have the bottle beside you so you don't have to get up and look for it because that would ruin the timing but I bet you would only need to do it a couple times to get the message across. Before everyone gets excited, yes I know you're supposed to spray the object with Bitter Apple but I used this method on the advice of a trainer whose opinion I respect and it worked. I bore the brunt of Sam's horrible puppy behavior and I know it's not fun. The OP mentioned her dad wants her to give the dog up. If it's come to those conversations, a couple squirts of bitter apple directly in the mouth are really no big deal. JMHO.
    We've tried that as well. This sounds weird, but when we did that, he had diarrhea from the spray. Not sure if the two were directly related, but it DID work as to the "get your teeth off of me" part. I'll try it again (I possibly may have used too "big" of a spray?) and see what happens. He isn't biting like he used to when we last did it (3 1/2 months vs. 9 months), so it will *hopefully* work better.
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