Your dog sits perfectly in the kitchen, comes when called across the living room, and seems to know exactly what you are asking. Then you walk outside, and suddenly it feels like all that training disappeared.
In this episode of Dog Works Radio, Michele Forto explains why your dog probably has not forgotten their training and is not deliberately ignoring you. Instead, dogs often struggle to generalize behaviors from one environment to another. Add new smells, other dogs, wildlife, traffic, people, and dozens of other distractions, and a simple command can suddenly become much harder.
You will learn how to gradually move training from the house into the real world, why distance from distractions matters, how to choose better rewards outdoors, and why repeatedly giving the same command can actually weaken your training. Michele also discusses using tools such as a long line to safely develop a more reliable recall.
The goal is not simply to have a dog that behaves during a training session. It is to build a dog that can use those skills at home, around the neighborhood, on trails, during trips, around guests, and wherever life takes you.
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