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By long walks I mean we take her to the beach and she plays with other dogs. Nothing forced.

the answers are probably in this thread :) do another read..have a look at the links . How old ,and what breed puppy? 12 weeks old, Aussie Shepherd.

We are going through our puppy's biting stage at the moment, and she doesn't pay attention to the yelp or growl whenever she bites (people or other dogs). She will carry on until we have to physically pry her mouth off our flesh or off the other unfortunate dog's ear. Sometimes we have success with ignoring / redirecting to appropriate toys, but unless we are playing with her and the toy for hours on end she will just go straight back to biting feet and hands. It gets to the point where we have had to put her outside to avoid the biting. Is this the right thing to do? I feel like it's bad for her and that there should be another way around this. We take her for 2 sometimes 3 long walks a day to the beach to play with other dogs, so it's not like she is lacking in exercise... suggestions?

Oh and we also need to work on leash manners. At the moment she goes bonkers with the lead on :laugh:

Update: Well it seems she is slowly coming around. She is starting to realise that food isn't always available, and now she works for every meal :laugh: We have sit on cue now 90% of the time, and we are working on DOWN. Her name is also coming along nicely, we get eye contact maybe 70% of the time when calling her name. Next step is recall. Thanks for all the suggestions!

Teekay: Each session is 5-10 minutes, and we usually do about 3 sessions throughout the day. I have way more time to devote if necessary, but advice we have received recommended not overdoing it for the first few weeks. As for treats, we have tried using her regular food (treating it out instead of giving it to her as a meal), little cubes of lamb heart (her fav so far), little cubes of cheese, Mince balls, freeze dried liver treats, and k9 natural lamb treats. Agility Dogs: We are using her treats as a portion of her daily intake, although she never seems to finish her meals. We might try cutting back on it. At the moment we are offering her about 6% of her bodyweight in food (as recommended by the dogfood company K9), but she is only really eating about 4%. Spotted Devil: She was free-fed at her mum's home, but we are moving her to set meal times, and I'm trying to either replace her set meal time with a training session (using her food as rewards piece by piece), or training just before meal times when she is most hungry. Maybe she just hasn't had enough time to appreciate food? As for not bothering charging the clicker or verbal marker, do you train using either of these? Or do you just reward a desired behaviour without a distinct marker? We trained our cattle dog like this, with a bit of luring and praising but no marker. LisaCC: She does seem to like affection and play time more than food, and we are trying to mix it up and sometimes we reward her with a treat plus a lot of affection. When she sits down disinterested or just walks off, it's normally within the first two or three repetitions, so definitely short :laugh: Haredown Whippets I'm just going off what I've read in a couple of books about Positive Reinforcement training, but it says that the response we are looking for with a successful "charging the clicker" is any noticeable sign of excitement upon hearing the marker, before actually receiving or seeing a treat. That's when they say that the dog has made the connection and is expecting a reward. At the moment there is just a head turn to the source of the click. Sorry if my post suggested anything otherwise, but I am not in any way blaming the dog. I'm simply putting out what I've been doing, and asking other peoples opinions on whether *I* can change anything to make things go smoothly. At the moment I have several hours a day with her, so it's not like the only thing we do is train. She gets lots of love and attention and plenty of play and exploration time. Honestly, I would be the happiest dog-parent in the world if the only thing I teach her is a good recall. Do you have any suggestions in training recall? At the moment making lots of noise and running in the opposite direction is working as a good recall, but she is slowly finding other things more interesting :D Dragonwoman Yes, I'm guessing she can. She is alert when other dogs are barking next door, as well as if someone accidentally drops something in the house. She also likes kissey noises :laugh: The breeder has also conducted breed sight and hearing tests with the vet, and all is OK.

Hi all, Our family has a new addition, a 9 week old Aus Shepherd. She is quite comfortable around the house now, and loves exploring the back yard. We are trying Clicker training, and at the moment we are "charging the clicker". Problem is, she doesn't seem to be getting it. We have not found any reward so far that makes her bonkers, she just calmly sits there and eats what we give her - then lies down and doesn't pay any more attention or just walks away. We have had some luck with using affection as a reward, but it tends to work her up quite a bit and she doesn't pay any further attention - choosing instead to chew our pants :laugh: Seeing as we have had her only a few days, are we asking too much too soon? All the books we have read on positive reinforcement and charging the clicker make it out that she should "get it" within a dozen or so click+rewards. So far we are at day 3 of trying and she really hasn't responded. We thought that perhaps she is getting it, but isn't showing a massive reaction, so we tried moving on to getting her attention using her name, as well as starting to scratch the surface with some sits. No luck.