Partner training!

Share your experience and tell us how using positive reinforcement training methods has changed yours and your dogs' lives.

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bendog
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Partner training!

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Boyfriend is, it seems, finally starting to understand positive training.

He's always been tolerant of it. He very strongly believes all dogs need walking daily and would never harm a dog but has been prone to shouting at them if they bark because "they need to learn" and thinks I'm a bit barmy when I start making cardboard toys etc.

Anyway, he's been off this week and has filled the dogs Kong toys every day. He's been cheering Pops when she does a wee, (she is basically housetrained now, but he cheers anyway :lol: ) and talking about recall on our walk today he said "you have to be exciting when you call her or she won't come back"

- I'll let him carry on thinking that he's the one that taught me all this :wink:
jacksdad
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well done. want a crack at my family? :lol: though to be fair, they are getting better as they see all this "babying" works.
abbyneo
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bendog wrote:
- I'll let him carry on thinking that he's the one that taught me all this :wink:
This can be a very valuable thing to do all the way through a relationship/life!!!! :lol:
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abbyneo wrote:
bendog wrote:
- I'll let him carry on thinking that he's the one that taught me all this :wink:
This can be a very valuable thing to do all the way through a relationship/life!!!! :lol:
Amen, sister!! :lol:
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:D It drives me NUTS when my OH suggests to me something that I've said a million times that he would like or should try. Until he reads it in a review or hears it elsewhere it just doesn't exist! Well done for being able to turn this to your (and so everyone's) advantage. I don't think I could do it :D

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Last night after Jasper had done something I asked, OH referred to me as 'alpha b****'. So I started explaining yet again how pack hierarchy, dominance, etc is wrong, out dated, and so on and so forth.

'Oh, I know,' he replied. 'I just like calling you alpha b****' :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by MPbandmom »

Way to go Bendog, by setting a positive example!
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