.:Lifeguard Katie:. asked:


My roommates and I have a one year old (going to be two around May) Samoyed living with us. While we love him to death we are having some obedience issues with him. Everything from chewing things he shouldn’t be, to playing rough with us, to not listening to simple commands. I feel bad because we are punishing him more than praising him and I think the real reason he is acting out is because he wants more attention, which we try and give but it seems to be not enough. One particular instance of bad behavior, I recently took him to a new dog park (enclosed) and when I needed him to come back to me, it took me, no joke, forty five minutes for me to finally catch him and put him back on his leash because every time I tried to get him, he would just run away because he thought I was playing and/or he was being stubborn and didn’t want to go home yet. I did everything from yelling at him, to waiting patiently until he got bored, to treat incentives. I was finally able to trick him with a ball to get his collar and practically drag him out of the park. I know that he LOVES to run around and I want him to do that because we are all so busy that we don’t have time to take him a really long walks (and none of us are good enough shape that we can run him at the speed he wants), but if he keeps up like this, I don’t think the park would be a viable option.

If anybody could give me some really good websites or their own experience training Samoyeds that would be EXTREMELY helpful. I understand that they get bored very easily and that they are extremely smart dogs but as a person who has only owned Labrador Retrievers, I am having a hard time trying to train this type of dog. He is so sweet and lovable when he is good, and he has already been passed over once before, I’d **** for us to do that to him again simply because we were going about training him in the wrong way!

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