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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 1089851" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>My first and arguably only well trained dog was given to me by my cousin and his wife. They raise and train border collies. She had a list of commands half a page long and was putting him through the paces for me and I remember thinking that that dog was smarter than I am for remembering it all. After I left my cousin called me and told me "just tell him to get'em up and let him work. If he's doing something you don't like just tell him to quit and he'll do something different." :lol: That's how I do it now.</p><p></p><p>About a month later she called me and asked how he was doing. She started asking questions about which direction he goes when I tell him to come by or away and things like that. The way they work, she trains the dogs and then when they have all the commands down he takes them to work with him. As it turns out they had their commands all mixed up. He had come by and away backwards from what she taught the dogs and had a few commands that they didn't know because she used different words for the same thing. It took them a looong time to figure it out because the dogs would just adjust to what they thought they should be doing. When she'd tell them to do something they would do it her way and when he did, they did it his way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 1089851, member: 14661"] My first and arguably only well trained dog was given to me by my cousin and his wife. They raise and train border collies. She had a list of commands half a page long and was putting him through the paces for me and I remember thinking that that dog was smarter than I am for remembering it all. After I left my cousin called me and told me "just tell him to get'em up and let him work. If he's doing something you don't like just tell him to quit and he'll do something different." :lol: That's how I do it now. About a month later she called me and asked how he was doing. She started asking questions about which direction he goes when I tell him to come by or away and things like that. The way they work, she trains the dogs and then when they have all the commands down he takes them to work with him. As it turns out they had their commands all mixed up. He had come by and away backwards from what she taught the dogs and had a few commands that they didn't know because she used different words for the same thing. It took them a looong time to figure it out because the dogs would just adjust to what they thought they should be doing. When she'd tell them to do something they would do it her way and when he did, they did it his way. [/QUOTE]
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