tez Posted July 18, 2010 Share Posted July 18, 2010 Ok...Jane is a bouncey 18 month labby cross and Gus is 5 and 1/2 months old. Jane has always been super excited when we have visitors and jumps and bounces around out of control with excitment. Gus is pretty low key but Jane's hyper-excitability really gees him up so when people drop around it can become quite stressfull as both the dogs go all out to meet and greet the visitors! So...the question I have to ask myself is...why oh why has it taken me this long to realise that all I needed to do was get a small handfull of treats and get the dogs to sit and drop while the visitors came in!!!! And to call them over for a sit-reward if they got excited during the visitors stay! Instead of two hyped up dogs going silly, I had two well-behaved dogs who got to stay in the room with some relaxed people. Too easy and yet it has taken me this long to work it out :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Posted July 18, 2010 Share Posted July 18, 2010 Ok...Jane is a bouncey 18 month labby cross and Gus is 5 and 1/2 months old. Jane has always been super excited when we have visitors and jumps and bounces around out of control with excitment. Gus is pretty low key but Jane's hyper-excitability really gees him up so when people drop around it can become quite stressfull as both the dogs go all out to meet and greet the visitors! So...the question I have to ask myself is...why oh why has it taken me this long to realise that all I needed to do was get a small handfull of treats and get the dogs to sit and drop while the visitors came in!!!! :D And to call them over for a sit-reward if they got excited during the visitors stay! Instead of two hyped up dogs going silly, I had two well-behaved dogs who got to stay in the room with some relaxed people. Too easy and yet it has taken me this long to work it out :D ;) Amazing what a handful of treats can do Teach them a few tricks and add that the the routine and amaze your guests Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tez Posted July 18, 2010 Author Share Posted July 18, 2010 Just can't believe how slow I am at catching on! A few minutes of getting their focus off the visitors and they relaxed and most importantly, lets the visitors relax too! I almost want more visitors to arrive so we can practise again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkeyre Posted July 18, 2010 Share Posted July 18, 2010 :D :D ;) There you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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