Of mother-in-laws and Schutzhund dogs - Page 2

RLHAR, thanks for starting this thread. Quite interesting I think.

Interesting trying to explain the "sport" to family as well.   

Kathy

I get around that with my working dog by teaching her the command "floor",  for Barbie this means that all four feet should remain on the floor at that time.  It seems to clarify things for her and gives me a balance of house and work for her.  (Meaning she is still allowed to counter surf and sniff at the doper house but if I tell her floor she stays off of the counter at mom's house or off of me if it's muddy and I have the rare "nice" clothes on yeh that happens often-not, but it does keep peace in the house)

Bob,

Oh yes, I use different commands in the house but it wasn't so much confusion with me.  It was having my mother-in-law snap 'down!' or otherwise correct her and my sister-in-laws kids scream and run away or break out in hysterics that really confused the situation.

Since I can't stop them from responding in those ways to my dog, the safest thing was to remove the potential for such corrections.

And since I get in trouble when I suggest the MiL in the crate ...

Lucky for me the inlaws live in FL and we are in NJ.  They have a GSD too, who is not the best behaved, so think they do cut my guys some slack.  LOL  My father in law is a little weary of Ike, who seems to have his number.  Though they seem to have made friends now.  Their first intro:  in the short of it, Ike was a young dog just started in his protection.  Father in law, whom he had never met, proceeded to try to enter the house solo, so Ike held him at the kitchen door doing a very nice bark and hold.  So silly father in law, trying to tell him to knock it off, proceeded to hit his leg with a newspaper.  So....as you can imagine that made Ike get into it more.   But, like I said since then they've made friends. 

With the new baby, we've had a lot more visitors and they do OK.  If there's a lot of people visiting, I just keep them in their crates and keep one out. 

No, it is not fair to teach your dog, especially a young one, that sometimes jumping is ok and sometimes it isn't. There is, however, nothing wrong with putting them in a sit or a down. Control the jumping in a constructive way.

Ah but there in lies the rub.

*I* can control how I give the commands to settle her but I can't stop other people from knee jerk yelling at her or crying and running away from her as was happening in these instances.

I,d tell mother in law to shut up! and if she did,nt like it send her home and put the e collar on neices and nephews a couple good shots at 50 will quiet them down!!! But since that last passage would get you in divorse court and some jail time i,m sure the crate is the next best idea...I would like to see the mother in law jambed in a crate thoe???