Hello everyone,
Kenai is 6 months old now. She quickly learned commands such as sit, lay down, leave it, stay over the months we've had her, so we know she has some brain cells working. She has also been through two training classes, the most recent one being a Canine Good Citizen class. Well, she failed the test in that class. She absolutely refused to lay down on command. She cocked her head at me in that very cute way of hers as if to say, "Lay down? I've NEVER heard that sound before...", even though she's done it a thousand times. I was so embarrassed. Then, during the part of the test where we have to walk nicely through a crowd she jumped all over every person, which is a big no-no. (Again, humiliating!) We have been working with her for months on not jumping up (OFF), but she ALWAYS jumps on people anyway. It's like she totally ignores us and doesn't care!
When we are in the yard she ignores our commands to come inside. In fact, she will run the other way, out of our yard, all over our neighborhood sometimes. If I have her on the leash, she strains and pulls to smell every little bunny trail all over the yard no matter if we've been outside 1/2 hour or 5 minutes.
Oh, one other thing. She knows she should go potty outside, and sometimes will stand by the door looking outside, which I take as her cue to let us know she needs to go out. Even so, every other day or so I'll find a big puddle somewhere in the house. Now I just pray she does it on the wood floor and not the rugs.
All of you with older doodles, does this get better??? Was your pup like this at 6 months? Is she just being naughty like a kid would be, or is she going to be uncontrollable forever? We had a golden retriever who was so much better behaved and I'm starting to feel like we have a dog who can learn, but just doesn't want to.
Kenai is 6 months old now. She quickly learned commands such as sit, lay down, leave it, stay over the months we've had her, so we know she has some brain cells working. She has also been through two training classes, the most recent one being a Canine Good Citizen class. Well, she failed the test in that class. She absolutely refused to lay down on command. She cocked her head at me in that very cute way of hers as if to say, "Lay down? I've NEVER heard that sound before...", even though she's done it a thousand times. I was so embarrassed. Then, during the part of the test where we have to walk nicely through a crowd she jumped all over every person, which is a big no-no. (Again, humiliating!) We have been working with her for months on not jumping up (OFF), but she ALWAYS jumps on people anyway. It's like she totally ignores us and doesn't care!
When we are in the yard she ignores our commands to come inside. In fact, she will run the other way, out of our yard, all over our neighborhood sometimes. If I have her on the leash, she strains and pulls to smell every little bunny trail all over the yard no matter if we've been outside 1/2 hour or 5 minutes.
Oh, one other thing. She knows she should go potty outside, and sometimes will stand by the door looking outside, which I take as her cue to let us know she needs to go out. Even so, every other day or so I'll find a big puddle somewhere in the house. Now I just pray she does it on the wood floor and not the rugs.
All of you with older doodles, does this get better??? Was your pup like this at 6 months? Is she just being naughty like a kid would be, or is she going to be uncontrollable forever? We had a golden retriever who was so much better behaved and I'm starting to feel like we have a dog who can learn, but just doesn't want to.