I am reading this book by Turid Rugaas, I really wanted it for my collection for future reference for future puppies Hattie is pretty good on a slack lead but I found one thing Turid suggests very helpful is to make a click, click noise with your tongue to get your dogs attention back on you and immediately treat, it's far better than a vebal "heel" which can be seen as nagging. I put this to the test over the last 3 days with Hattie who occassionally pulls and it worked extremely well, she looks to me most of the time now Does anyone else use this method? I thought anyone with pulling issues might like to buy this book give it a go. Again it's a short to the point training book. I highly recommend it. This book was on Ebay for £6.00 with free P&P. xx
Hi Helen, I'm sure I read that one, and I kind of naturally did that anyway - its just a marker really. Trouble is, because I had done it for a lot of things - for getting attention, it wasn't really a marker. Not sure if that made it a "cue". Anyway, yes, I thought it really useful, but by the time I read about it I had kind of spoiled it It was a pretty short book, and kind of covered a lot of stuff we had talked about on the forum at the time. Worth a read I think.
I love that book! It helped me a lot when Charlie was a pup. The "click click" from that book turned into my permanent positively trained interrupter/attention cue. I no longer use it for walking, but do use it all the time.
I've just ordered this, along with her book on barking. I've just read On Talking Terms with Dogs. Great little book. Which was also recommended on the forum. I used to do the click click noise and had good results. I'm wondering now why I stopped using it.
Hi I have just discovered Turid Rugaas. I am just about to start her book on barking And I am waiting for on talking terms with dogs And what if your dog pulls. Poppy our 7 month old chocolate lab is a terrible puller. her nose is down and she is off. so much so i have just bought a halti for her, as it was becoming impossible for us to take her out of the garden. I will try the clicking noise . while waiting for the book
