Our technique actually deletes errors in your dogs thinking.
It takes only a few moments of time to permanently cancel or delete a behavior.
Correcting a behavior takes the entire lifetime of your dog. Make your choice, to solve behavior problems permanently in a few moments, or get the satisfaction of correcting your dogs behavior problems each time they occur, for the entire life of your dog.
When you get tired of correcting, whining, nagging, and arguing, start reading this manual again, follow the directions, and change your values. Change is difficult.
So let’s go back to the prior example using the “other room” command. As you prepare to exit the room after having shown him the meaning of your request, create a sound just before your dog reaches the exit or doorway. As always, instantly praise him.
Continue to exit the room yourself, and if he continues to try to exit, create the sound behind him, and praise again.
If he successfully exits the room against your command, simply repeat the original command “go in the other room good boy”.
Of course, this will be treated as a new request, to be performed according to the progression of events as required.
In other words, you must pay attention to the last instance in which sound was used, and try to insure that in the next instance, the sound comes from the appropriate source, i.e.: if you’re dog went into the “other room” on his first request without sound, perhaps strictly as a coincidence, then, after you’ve tried to correct him from leaving, that instance would require the application of sound with your next request, which in actuality, would be his second request to “go in the other room good boy”.
To review:
first request, “go in the other room, good boy”;
second request; “go in the other ROOM good boy”;
third request “go in the other room, good boy”;
Let’s say he accomplished the request properly.
When he violates the command, your next request to send him back in there would be, in actuality, his fourth request, requiring sound on this command. If you are not thoroughly confused at this point, I’m surprised.
Here’s the rest of the secret:
The sequence of events never starts over again, but always continues from the last instance in which the sound was used.
It is imperative to try to remember the last occasion in which your dog was given a command.
Example: let’s say, he’s out in the back yard.
You call him in, and he fails to respond.
So you reach for the can, and repeat your request accompanied with one hard downward shake to create sound.
Naturally, your dog will respond on this occasion.
Next time that he is out in the yard, -even if it’s the next day, and he fails to respond when you ask him to come in, you’ve got to try to remember when it was, that you last needed to re-enforce the command, using sound.
So you might stop for a moment to think, “gee, wasn’t it just last night, that I asked him to come inside, and failing that, needed to create the sound on my second request for him to come in?”
Did the sound come from my hand, or did the can need to be tossed beyond him.
Follow through thinking this out, and make the right decision. If you can’t remember the last instance, that’s O.K.
Simply do your best, and set yourself an appointment to do the Family Pack Leadership exercise when you plan to re-install the conditioned reflex to “come”. It’ll take about ten minutes.