Hi My 3 year old has recently started to run away on walks to the same row of houses on our route and open their front doors and enter. Has anyone experienced this and how have you trained to stop? Many thanks Aly
Sounds like a bit of an explorer The easiest thing would be to put your dog on lead when you start to get near these houses. On the training front it's a matter of working on your recall and on having your dog stay within a certain distance of you on walks.
There is a lot of info about training a good recall here: http://www.thelabradorsite.com/labrador-training/labrador-recall-training/
My last lab would dart in people's houses as we walked past if they opened the door - I always had him on the lead when we went along the street. Everyone in the village learned to keep their doors shut as we walked past .
Has he come back with anything interesting ? Sorry,I'm not making light of it but I can see you've had some sensible advice.Our friend used to take his lab to work with him at a unit on an industrial estate that had a bakery......he could easily run into the back of the bakery through the plastic sheeting and used to come back regularly with a sandwich cake jammed into his chops!
Hi, do you think your neighbours are feeding him when he pops in? I would pop him back on lead and treat him with some high value treats as you walk past these houses x
Any open door is an invitation to Snowie. Thankfully he is always welcomed! He is very curious and just loves exploring new spaces. Equally so, he loves having canine visitors, and in our little road the biggest treat of all is when a dog gets to go into someone's garden and investigate all the smells (and leave their own!).
in situations like this we had good luck with using the vibrate function on a training collar. the dog typically knows the "come" command fine, but once a lab "locks on" to a target, they definitely have a tendency to shut off their ears. feeling the strong vibration on their neck is often enough snap them out of their "locked on" trance and they turn their ears back on
