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·As I was standing at the end of the garden in my dressing gown this morning, telling Oscar to do his 'job job', I just wondered whether other people have trained their labs to do their business to specific words.
At first we thought our trainer was a bit strange when he told us that as soon as we bought Oscar home we needed to have chosen a particular word for both actions and always say the relevant one gently as he was doing it, but it has proved to be so useful and one of the best things we have trained him.
Now if we're leaving Oscar at home for a few hours, or are taking him in the car and need to make sure he won't need to go while we're out or on the journey, we just take him out into the garden and tell him do his 'pss pss' or 'job job'.
It works brilliantly and since the age of about 12 weeks, Oscar has known exactly what the words mean and what he needs to do.
It helps too if we're on a walk with him on the lead and he'e been sniffing and walking in circles for ages and you want to get on with the walk, just to mention whichever you assume he needs seems to hurry him up a bit.
Seems so natural to us now, but just wondered if its something that a lot of you do, or if we're in the minority of those who send their dog out into the garden for a 'pss pss'!
Sarah x
At first we thought our trainer was a bit strange when he told us that as soon as we bought Oscar home we needed to have chosen a particular word for both actions and always say the relevant one gently as he was doing it, but it has proved to be so useful and one of the best things we have trained him.
Now if we're leaving Oscar at home for a few hours, or are taking him in the car and need to make sure he won't need to go while we're out or on the journey, we just take him out into the garden and tell him do his 'pss pss' or 'job job'.
It works brilliantly and since the age of about 12 weeks, Oscar has known exactly what the words mean and what he needs to do.
It helps too if we're on a walk with him on the lead and he'e been sniffing and walking in circles for ages and you want to get on with the walk, just to mention whichever you assume he needs seems to hurry him up a bit.
Seems so natural to us now, but just wondered if its something that a lot of you do, or if we're in the minority of those who send their dog out into the garden for a 'pss pss'!
Sarah x