How To Get The Dog To Leave It

[giraffez]

I can't get my dog to leave it. We practically go through it every day. When he knows i have food, he loses interest on the temptor and doesn't even try to get it. He mostly just stands and stares at it and when he looks up i click and reward. We have tried many objects and practice in many different places.

However when he is at school and we do the leave it, he just goes for the object and doesn't look up at all.

[corvus]

Can you expand a bit on that? I'm not sure I follow exactly what is going on. He doesn't play the game, just looks at you for the food at home, but at school he just goes straight for the item he was told to leave?

[giraffez]

Can you expand a bit on that? I'm not sure I follow exactly what is going on. He doesn't play the game, just looks at you for the food at home, but at school he just goes straight for the item he was told to leave?

Yeah thats pretty much it. At school, he doesn't run to snatch the object off the floor but sniffs it and won't look at me (he just keeps sniffing it) when i tell him to leave it.

[corvus]

Maybe it's just too distracting at school? Whenever you do something your dog knows in a new place it's basically as if it's a whole new thing to them. Have you tried doing the exercise in different places around your home and in different contexts? Try surprising him by dropping something on the ground next to your foot and telling him to leave it. You can put your foot on it if he goes for it. Try it on walks, or in the front yard, on the coffee table, while you're sitting outside the shops... that kind of thing.