We feed her before we eat but she will eat her dinner and then come sit under our dinner table. How do i teach her not to.
we haven't been able to train her to do anything even after taking her to puppy school for the first year of her life.
2007-05-27 09:00:58 · 9 answers · asked by GCTA 4 in Pets ➔ Dogs
OK, first of all, you are feeding her before you eat your dinner? Bad idea. I always try to answer these questions based on books or documentaries I have seen myself. On this one though, I am going to use an example from a great Disney movie I recently watched, and I am sure a lot of people have seen, but they may not have understood what was going on. The movie I refer to is "Eight Below." Yeah the movie with the huskies that get left in Antarctica for nearly 6 months and most of them survive. There is a scene when they had been there for a few days and they go out hunting for the first time. At this time, there are seven dogs, and the female (I am sorry but I forgot her name) she shows that she is the alpha. She leads the attack as she charges into a flock of birds and they fly right to the rest of the pack with the exception of what that had gotten in trouble and had to stay behind. The point to this comes after the hunt. The pacj returns, each carrying a bird, and they all take the birds to the alpha female, and drop them at her feet. She has her choice of what she wants. Once she starts eating, the rest of the pack files in, picks a bird and goes off to eat in peace. Do you see where we are going here. The alpha eats first, then everyone below the alpha. NOw lets translate this to your problem.
You have a 3 yr old beagle, that you are feeding before you, she sits there "begging." First of all, she is not understanding why you are eating when she as not eaten all she wants. She things she is the alpha. So from now on, do not feed her until after dinner. Now lets look at the "begging" issue. A lot of people email me all the time asking how to correct beggingand the truth is, the dog isn't even begging. IF the dog is sitting there watching you eat, then that is acceptable. However, if she is there and she is whining and carrying on, then that is actual begging. If she is just watching you, then there isn't a problem, if she is whining, then the changing of who eats first should help to resolve this issue. Remember, the dog doesn't eat before you do!!!
2007-05-27 09:28:34 · answer #1 · answered by boleen03 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you fed her from the table before? If so you shouldn't do that anymore. Maybe there is someone in your family that is and you just don't know it.
Sometimes dogs just do that though, reguardless.
Maybe changing her eating schedule, and NEVER feeding her from the table, kitchen, counter.. anything. we ran into that problem because I fed the dog in the kitchen sometimes... never from the table though. still begged.
Try not feeding her/him anything but dog food.
2007-05-27 09:05:45 · answer #2 · answered by SuperMomReturns 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can have your dog so well trained and it will still do it. I know how you are feeling.
My best advice to you is either not pay any attention to her or make her lay down somewhere else not around the table.
2007-05-27 10:24:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The puppy training is for you more than it is for the dog. It teaches you about dog behavior and how to teach your dog. This would be extremely easy behavior to correct if you knew how to train your dog. At this point you are asking for something impossible. You can't teach your dog yet you are asking how to teach your dog. Huh?
I've been training dogs for 50 years and I've never come across a dog I could not train. I've been warned, "my dog is untrainable and a biter". I've had these dogs learning the "sit" command and putting its head in my lap to get some ear scratches inside of 15 minutes.
2007-05-27 09:23:51 · answer #4 · answered by DaveSFV 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well befor you eat dinner put her in a kennel oride till ur done do this for a bout a month and she should be broke of it hope it helps.
2007-05-27 09:06:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, if you give her food scraps from the table, I'd say she has trained you to do a thing or two!
2007-05-27 09:04:48 · answer #6 · answered by kk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put the dog in another room while you're eating, if she refuses to learn. You don't have to put up with that.
2007-05-27 09:08:59 · answer #7 · answered by mightymite1957 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
um if u tap him on the nose and tell him that he is a bad dog every time he wont do it
2007-05-27 09:04:15 · answer #8 · answered by alyssa b 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
u have to say no really loud and make sure he/she knows u r in charge
2007-05-27 09:06:49 · answer #9 · answered by Ĺøɾεṉα 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋