Come when called even when eating or sniffing! Here is a fun recall proofing exercise I created using a snuffle mat, carpet or grass to teach your dog to come away from distractions. Wish is 18 weeks old in this video, and now at 6 months old she has the most awesome turn on a dime recall away from any distraction. Hope you enjoy the tutorial and I hope it gives you some more ideas of proofing games to play with your dogs.
Here is a link to another proofing game- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3a6cxHenoY
This video is an excerpt from Week 11 of my Weekly Puppy Insights membership program. You can find out more about the program here: http://dogmantics.com/product/weekly-puppy-insights/
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This is very informative and useful, thank you so much for making this free!
You are welcome, I thought it was important to share, for situations on walks where the dog finds something super exciting to sniff or eat when off leash and you need to call your dog because of an emergency.
Snuffle mat ? I WANT ONE !
Thanks for this awesome video/demonstration Emily. It was only the other day I was looking for an intermediary step for one of my dogs as his recall is going to need a lot of work in small iterations. I was really struggling on how to introduce a minor distraction in a controlled exercise. This is perfect ! THANKS !
Right, off to google snuffle mats….
wow what amazing dogs. very well trained! I will be getting a puppy some time soon so i am definitely going to use these methods 🙂
Thank you so much for this video! My dog’s recall is pretty good except when it’s food I’m calling her away from. I will give this a try (especially happy I can practice inside since my dog is reactive).
Ruby, our chocolate lab, loves us but seems to love her lab walk even more. If she is in the back yard she will come when called unless distracted. However if she gets out the front she is gone. Always the same direction and always in lab walk style. Waits for you to get closer and then moves away. She is two and a half. I try throwing her treats but that does not help. How do we get her to come back? She has free will:)
I love your videos so much, I got a puppy! You have such useful tips in training. But, I was wondering where you got your harness from. I can’t find anything that is not bulky and thick. Thank you 🙂
You are all so cute together, very inspiring. My dog does anything for treats, a little obstinate this month, but she always gives in, the trouble is no treats and distractions, we have had to pull way back and start from scratch again, any tips on that? It is a puppy at 5 month.
I find in time i can wean off treats.
I’m about two months into using this technique. I don’t have a rug so I spread the dogs breakfast kibble around the yard on a morning and then periodically call them away from it to my high value treats.
As of right now, in high distraction environments it’s about 70% successful. I think by the six month mark it will be flawless.
Thank you for this video! I hadn’t seen this exercise before.
I am really impressed with your channel! Very clear and specific instructions. I can’t wait to try your exercises with my puppy.
Thank you Emily so much for all.of the hard work you do and the time you invest in making these videos for us. I am getting my puppy in 2 days and haven’t slept in a week because I am so excited. He will be 9 weeks then. I also believe this will really help me with my relationships with my kids as well. I noticed you mentioned this in a video before.
You are just absolutely amazing kikopup! Never a bad video. Your enthusiasm and intelligence and love for dogs is contaious
HI. I have a 7 month old border collie puppy puppy that I have been working on her recall since I got her at 10 weeks. As such she has always been very good and came back straight away from all distractions as soon as I called. However suddenly ( like overnight this week) she has decided that she doesn’t want to listen and that trying to look for flies to eat is more interesting. She doesn’t do this indoor and is only when she is out on walks, even with other dogs around to play with. She will be on a walk and I call and she comes back perfectly then the next minute she is off looking at the sky and won’t come back.
Is there anything that you can recommend to help as most people and trainers I have spoken to have just said that it is her adolescent phase and that it will pass as she had such a good recall before that I was still rewarding to keep her interested in coming back. I have had to put her on a 50ft lone line as a safety measure for walks as I can’t tell when she will or won’t come back. If she decides to ignore me then it can take up to 15 minutes to get her back and I am worried she could run into a road, hence putting her on a long line. I have always used a toy as a reward when she comes back as she is not that interested in food.
I was so impressed with your training that Wish is leaving Splash alone while Splash is eating(4:56). The skill is strongly important for the good recall, I believe. But some dog learn it naturally, and others don’t.
Do you have a video to teach a dog to ”leave another dog alone while another dog is eating”? I thought mat-training would teach a dog the skill, but it didn’t quite work out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jYfKK17ZBs The basic leave it from dogs, then you would generalize to mealtimes. You could if you saw your dog hovering over the other dog, say ‘leave it’ and then invite the dog away, with a kissy noise, and show the dog what he could do – like sit on the couch, on a dog bed, play with a toy, or go outside to the bathroom.
So amazed by the great obedience of your dogs. Job definetly well done! Will certainly play this game with my pup, her recall when distracted (by scents) is very unreliable and I am trying very hard to have her leave any distraction alone and come to me. Your videos have really helped me getting the hang of training a dog, so I really just want to say thank you for that.
You are welcome!
You directed me here to this video, and now I see I have been clicking way too soon on the “Come” so I see you do the click once she arrives at you. Awesome. I’m learning.
Thanks for the link, I’ll work on this exercise. I don’t have a snuffle mat right now but I can use a blanket. My pup Skene loves the manure in my garden so maybe I could try it with that after going through the steps and raising the value of the treats. lol
you can just sprinkle treats in the grass too.
Thanks for this video! Just what we need!
It’s difficult yet because our labrador loves most food, so Is have to figure out which combination works.
Hi Emily! How do you teach your dogs to leave other dogs alone while eating? And how do you prevent resource guarding towards other dogs? I have followed all your amazing resource guarding prevention videos with my dog when he was a puppy, and he doesn’t guard against people at all. However, he does guard food, people and sometimes toys against other dogs. If I ever get another puppy, I want to do something from the start to prevent this. Can you do a video about it some time?
I would teach leave it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jYfKK17ZBs and also I didnt mention in the video, that resource guarding can be learned, but sometimes its genetic so no matter what you do it will occur in “new” situations. Which is most likely what happened with your dog. You usually can see signs of it right from the start in a young puppy. I wrote a 17 page protocol on resource guarding here- https://dogmantics.com/resource-guarding-protocol/
@Dog Training by Kikopup Thank you so much!
Had to smile when you said ‘low value treats like carrot’ – my dog sighs deeply when I offer him carrot or any vegetables, it makes me smile. He would definitely come back to me for roast meat. Love how you give the dog a choice, so it makes sense to them to come to you.
my dogs love frozen broccoli