You didn't warn me...

Sophie,I will tell you on our ride home from Janet's with Trapp,I had the clicker with me. By the time we got home,he knew what a clicker was.It was amazing how quickly he,and also Jasper connected with the clicker.

They are smart dogs,these shelties.
 
labgirl said:
Lol, at everyone:biggrin2:

Yeah, you did tell me but I couldn't picture it having only worked Cadbury (took a year to learn beg, bless him). Going from clicker training Merlin to clicker training Cadbury is like winding down a gear.

I'm looking forward to puppy class, it will be nice to have a dog that everyone's looking at and going "did you see that?" Instead of the lab pup you have to keep apologising for because he ruined the smart dog's sit stay:uhoh:
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hahaha, the oafy Labs :)
I love them, they are just the sweetest and kindest dogs, but omg frustrating how brain kicks in only after the fact LOL
LOL
I like Dr Mac's suggestion of gifted and talented school.. hahahha.. bet that would be full of our Shelties (but not Ember...) LOL
 
Sca was afraid of the clicker at first then my timing was always screwed up on click treat so I just stopped doing it.

Is Merlin food motivated? Sca is VERY food motivated so any hint of food and he is on cue :rolleyes2:
 
Is Merlin food motivated?
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Is he!!!!:lol: No worries there, he'll do anything for a treat!

BTW, I wasn't criticizing my brown boy Cadbury earlier, because I love him to pieces and he may get distracted by stuff and forget what he was doing, or just decide the clicker isn't worth working for today - but when he does get something it is so satisfying! I love training him and when you walk into a room where there are other labs and Cadbury is doing 'beg' and 'give paw' on cue and every other lab owner is going "how did she get him to do that?" Well that has to be the best feeling, because I never give up on my chocolate monster and he makes me proud:biggrin2:
 
Toffee's Mom said:
hahaha, the oafy Labs :)
I love them, they are just the sweetest and kindest dogs, but omg frustrating how brain kicks in only after the fact LOL
LOL
I like Dr Mac's suggestion of gifted and talented school.. hahahha.. bet that would be full of our Shelties (but not Ember...) LOL
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Oh Ember is extremely smart. She maybe my smartest sheltie and that is saying something but she is also more independent and stubborn than most shelties. She reminded me of my Beagle/Jrt mix but I fortunately knew how to handle this type of personality.

danisgoat said:
Food motivated dogs are so much easier to train.
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What saved Ember. She would run over her own mother for food.:lol:
 
labgirl said:
Oh and we have cottoned on to sitting at a person's feet when they are eating and looking pretty so you get a bit - I swear I only weakened once, and now its ingrained:o
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This one really gets me.

Must...resist...cute little staring eyes...
 
Must...resist...cute little staring eyes...
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Definitely!:lol:

Oh Ember is extremely smart. She maybe my smartest sheltie and that is saying something but she is also more independent and stubborn than most shelties.
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My saving grace is that I had Cadbury, and Cadbury was such a hard dog to train even for a lab. I learnt a great deal of patience and perseverance with him. For a first dog he was such a struggle - but then I like a challenge and I refused to give up:wink2:
 
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