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Originally Posted by jazzking1971  This morning something is still up. I asked him to heel with me through the house for his food dish. He just sat there and wouldn't do anything. I ended up putting his dish in the office and called him. He did a perfect recall so I fed him and he ate as fast as he usually does.
Right now he's out in the back with the other dog and they are running around and playing keep away. I don't think he's sick. |
Any chance he's giving himself phantom commands?
One of our dogs was so eager to please that he would occasionally come up with his own idea for a new command and start obeying it out of the blue. One time it was "sit on the stairs" and for a few days we'd find him perched on a middle stair waiting for a release command.
I'm sure we must have had a role in leading him toward that phantom command, but we never did figure out how we could have triggered it and why it was suddenly a very important command for Guinness to obey.
Guinness would usually create a phantom command once or twice a year, and did it throughout his life. He's our only dog to do so, and happened to be the one who had this amazingly strong need to work and eagerness to please.
Lynda