Commands List (continually edited)
On November 2nd last year, I made a post about the commands I'd like to have my dogs know. Today (Dec 9), a year later, here's the update on what they do know and what I'll have to work on.
This is the old list of what I wanted them to learn.
Basics
As for the dogs themselves and their attitude to training?
Ri is more laid back about it; he'll do things but sometimes he "thinks" on them first, which is a totally husky thing to do. He is the more reliable of the two to actually do as asked. Thus far we're working on "hold it" and he hates it. I'm starting with a pop bottle flattened out and I've gotten to the point where he takes it in his mouth but he shows little ambition to do this even knowing he gets kibble. So I either have to up the food value - like give him cheese instead - or find something else for him to hold, just not sure what.
Shila on the other hand gets SO worked up she literally falls over herself to do things and she does them wrong more often or she gives me this stare like "What?" when I tell her something, so I end up doing so repeatedly until I have to lure her because it's not cluing in. I'll have to video her sometime because I'd really like to know how to fix it. If I can get her calmed down a little, or those rare times she's calmer herself, she does do a snappy down/sit combination where I've noticed little movement in her leg placement. When I teach the stand to her I'm going to have to be really careful as now she tends to pop into a "Sit up" instead of sit when she goes from a down to a sit.
As to the sledding commands, those are more standard and as we haven't used them in a while, they'll need refreshers but they do know everything mentioned above except right and left leg which will be taught when I have their good pulling harnesses.
This is the old list of what I wanted them to learn.
Basics
- Sit
- Down
- Stay
- Heel
- Get it - grab hold of a tug to play
- Off - as opposed to down; getting off something or to get off in the case of jumping
- Stand - stand still; to be used in conjunction with sledding commands
- Kennel
- Bed - for when they’re not in a kennel, I want them to be able to go to their bed and lay there until release
- Break - release word similar to yes; used when I want the dogs to “Break” from a position/place when not in training
- Wait
- Hold - hold an object in their mouths
- Watch me - look at my face
- Touch - touch my hand with your nose
- Place - as used in ring sport; I love the position and Orion’s already doing it sometimes so shaping it shouldn’t be hard
- Seek - go find something like a toy
- Away - go run away from me
- Box - put the toys into a box
- Gee
- Haw
- On-By - go past whatever might take their attention away
- Line out - straighten out ahead of me; pull the gangline taunt
- Back/Around Gee - turn around to the right to go back the way we came
- Back/Around Haw - turn around to the left to go back the way we came
- Easy - go at an easy pace
- Go/Let’s go - start to pull
- Hike-on - Go faster; most people just make kissing sounds but the dogs have that as a sort of pay attention/come to me signal already so I need something else
- Whoa
- Right leg - for putting the right leg through the harness leg loop
- Left leg - for putting the left leg through the harness loop
- Sit
- Down
- Get it - grab hold of a tug to play - Ri knows this more than Shi.
- Off
- Kennel
- Break
- Wait
- Watch me/look at me - both dogs will do this for my mother, too, as well as me.
- Touch - so far it's a nose touch to my hand; I'll be shaping it later for a touch pad.
- Place
- Here - Shi mostly; variance of "come" where she is called to my heel side
- Leave it - Both now "leave it" for kibble; Ri has left cheese alone. My ideal end for this is to get to salmon bits as Ri literally quivers when he sees/smells it and if I can get him to leave that, anything else should be good.
As for the dogs themselves and their attitude to training?
Ri is more laid back about it; he'll do things but sometimes he "thinks" on them first, which is a totally husky thing to do. He is the more reliable of the two to actually do as asked. Thus far we're working on "hold it" and he hates it. I'm starting with a pop bottle flattened out and I've gotten to the point where he takes it in his mouth but he shows little ambition to do this even knowing he gets kibble. So I either have to up the food value - like give him cheese instead - or find something else for him to hold, just not sure what.
Shila on the other hand gets SO worked up she literally falls over herself to do things and she does them wrong more often or she gives me this stare like "What?" when I tell her something, so I end up doing so repeatedly until I have to lure her because it's not cluing in. I'll have to video her sometime because I'd really like to know how to fix it. If I can get her calmed down a little, or those rare times she's calmer herself, she does do a snappy down/sit combination where I've noticed little movement in her leg placement. When I teach the stand to her I'm going to have to be really careful as now she tends to pop into a "Sit up" instead of sit when she goes from a down to a sit.
As to the sledding commands, those are more standard and as we haven't used them in a while, they'll need refreshers but they do know everything mentioned above except right and left leg which will be taught when I have their good pulling harnesses.