can anyone recommend a dog trainer near castle hill?

[asal]

can anyone recommend a dog trainer near castle hill?

a  disrespectful puppy and a way too soft owner is not a good combination. beginning to suspect he would listen to another man better than a woman.

[RuralPug]

Usually what you need is an owner trainer, not a dog trainer! (Apologies, couldn't resist!) 

I hope you get a good recommendation.

[Panto]

If the owner is already a too soft woman, perhaps a woman trainer is more beneficial - when the trainer is away, then the owner won't have the excuse 'oh listens to the trainer because it's a man' sort of excuse.

 

Correct - owner needs to step up. A trained dog is one thing but the handler also needs training.

[corvus]

Soft doesn't have to mean a pushover. And opportunistic puppies aren't necessarily disrespectful.  Learning theory doesn't need to be applied firmly, just consistently. 

[asal]

Every one of you nailed  it,  nothing wrong with the puppy   she is training her human.

Owner is male and is way too soft in every way spent an hour just teaching him to tell her to sit, he talks her with that please  do it tone, he has lost  with the first word,  she she see's  'sucker'  in capital letters on him

Edited November 7, 2017 by asal

[corvus]

Karen Riddell at Spot Dog might be worthwhile checking out: https://www.facebook.com/Spotdogtraining/

 

It's not necessarily that she sees "sucker", it's just that the signal isn't clear and nor are the consequences. Often people that try to talk their dog into doing something are giving a lot of signals all at once and most of them are meaningless. A puppy has to try to sift through them all to find something meaningful. With a short attention span and no quick and clear consequences forthcoming, they don't learn what the meaningful signal is. They just do what they like. They usually turn out to be perfectly cooperative once they know what they are being asked and that they will get good things when they do it.