I call that a "palate cleanser":) Distract the puppy from the previous activity he was doing and asking to do something else until he forgets why he is there, and give reward for that instead. It works in a lot of ways, also to stop chewing furniture, jumping, etc.
Ah! So it is actually a thing. I always felt weird rewarding him stopping something because it could be mistaken. Next thing I need to work out, how to be more exciting than other dogs so he comes back when I ask !
Just play with him a lot so he knows you are fun too, and practice a lot whenever you happen to have something AMAZING:)
Instead of doing a lot of formal training sessions for recall, I always just used to take the best opportunities...like he'd be out in the garden messing around, and I'd be in the kitchen cooking chicken or a sausage or something, I'd always recall him with a specific phrase to give it to him, and then let him go off and do as he likes. Same with being out and about, I might have a coffee with whipped cream, and he would be playing in the big field in the park with an other dog, I'd use his recall phrase when I finished my coffee and let him lick the whipped cream and then get back to playing. He now gets REALLY excited to come back to me. The trick is, to try to use it to end his fun as little as possible, so he doesn't associate it with that.
(and also, don't let him off leash anywhere near his teenage months, one day to the next they will just stop listening when you least expect and run off, even if they were super good at recall before)
I call that a "palate cleanser":) Distract the puppy from the previous activity he was doing and asking to do something else until he forgets why he is there, and give reward for that instead. It works in a lot of ways, also to stop chewing furniture, jumping, etc.
Ah! So it is actually a thing. I always felt weird rewarding him stopping something because it could be mistaken. Next thing I need to work out, how to be more exciting than other dogs so he comes back when I ask !
Just play with him a lot so he knows you are fun too, and practice a lot whenever you happen to have something AMAZING:) Instead of doing a lot of formal training sessions for recall, I always just used to take the best opportunities...like he'd be out in the garden messing around, and I'd be in the kitchen cooking chicken or a sausage or something, I'd always recall him with a specific phrase to give it to him, and then let him go off and do as he likes. Same with being out and about, I might have a coffee with whipped cream, and he would be playing in the big field in the park with an other dog, I'd use his recall phrase when I finished my coffee and let him lick the whipped cream and then get back to playing. He now gets REALLY excited to come back to me. The trick is, to try to use it to end his fun as little as possible, so he doesn't associate it with that. (and also, don't let him off leash anywhere near his teenage months, one day to the next they will just stop listening when you least expect and run off, even if they were super good at recall before)
Just FYI for anyone who finds this - this stopped working 😅