| Cindee, this is not your fault, it is the moron trainers you have been hiring. These trainers sound like those hacks at Petsmart. All treat based training. This training is fine if you are always going to have a pocketful of treats and don't care if your dog listens under distraction and you want your dog to look at you as a treat dispenser and not a leader. Well, you get my drift. Sometimes corrections are a very neccasary part of your getting your dog to listen to you. Any knuckle head can get a dog to do obedience in your living room, it's when the dog will respond under heavy distraction is the true test. I have yet to see a very sharp obedience trained dog that has not had any correction in it's training. The addage applies here: One strong, harsh correction is better than 100 whispered "no, baby stop that, mommy or daddy doesn't want you do to that". Good luck.. you sound like you have a normal male rott that will push you as far as he can. |