staffit

Thanks so much for your advice erny, you have been super. I will go try a couple things now and see how she goes. It doesnt happen over night , but it will happen right ;) Cheers

Sorry erny, forgot to mention i am north brisbane.

She is great when it is meal time , she will sit up straight with her ears pricked high , wait and when i put the bowl down she will only start to eat on my release word `ok` I give her a pat tell her she is a good girl and leave her to eat. It seems thats the only time she will do things the way ive trained her to.

I have now gone into the position of being on my knee calling her in a happy voice to come as this is the only way she will come when called. She comes with her body close to the ground(like crawling) and then when she gets to me she rolls over. I do pat her for comming over as i want to let her know she is a good girl for comming. But then i stand up so she can get off her back. Once she is up i go to her side , stack her and tell her to stand, but she keeps wanting to flop to the ground. I dont ever yell at her or mistreat her. I do use a hard firm voice when i say , come stand sit ect. I feel like she is afraid of me the way she crawls to me and i feel terrible for it.

Hi , I was just wondering what people have done to make a timid dog not so timid.(if thats what it is) Every time i call her she comes over and goes straight on her back. I try to stack her and she always wants to put her hind legs on the ground, she doesnt hold her head high she always droops it down and when i run her on a lead, she runs close to the ground. I donot know why she is like this, she gets heaps of attention , i have kids who play with her all the time, i am constinantly trying to train her , but she just doesnt seem to be interested. (its kinda like she is scared) But she is happy when im not training her, she will chase the kids, wag her tail, jump all over us. (she turns into your happy go lucky stafford) I have a male stafford who does everything just wonderful and i havent trained him any different to the way i am trying to train her. He is 18mnths and she is 8 months. What do i do? Any suggestions? Cheers