| SO...the recall is supposed to be the FIRST thing learned?
I'm confused by my little girl.
She is 10 weeks old, and seems smart as a whip.
Her best commands are most definitely "sit' and "down". It is the cutest thing ever to see a puppy this age sitting on command and then going to the down position as fast as lightning as soon as you command it. having always raised dachshunds, this is an entirely new experience for me (having a pup that actually absorbs any learning before 5-8 months.)
She is also good at "kennel" because 1/3 of the time i say it, she knows she is getting food put in there to eat.
As far as her recall, though...well, she seems to come when she wants. sometimes, she will just lay there and look at me while i say her name, etc. I'm not saying she never comes or that she is particularly bad at it...but it makes me wonder why she is not as awesome at the recall as she is at sitting and down. i am also having a bit of a hard time teaching stay, but i had a good idea last night that maybe it will be easier to teach stay now that she completely understands "down", so maybe she can learn to stay from that position to start?
any advice about how to integrate some games that can teach the recall into our little training sessions ( i do like 4-5 short little ones throughout the day ) would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to do that thing listed above where you have to yank them your way with a leash. it seems like that would make them hate the leash, and I haven't even started down that path yet.
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