My dog ate my homework...

[Trek420]

I usually hold the doors open for her so that I can keep the cats inside. But my fiance and I need to be better about keeping her in the car until we get out. She gets quite excited and bounds over us. I didn't really think about it as much of a problem until I was presented it as an alpha creature problem.

Or the dog dashes off gets hit by a car problem, or the dog dashes off gets into trouble with another dog or if you ever travel with the dog....lost.

Again, Mae's far from a perfect pet but this is one of her many good behaviors she doesn't dash in or out of the car. Into the car is directly on command "let's go" or "let's go shopping " and dog hops in.

Out of the car is more important.

Regardless of how eager she is to get going at her favorite park she does a sit for me, I open the door, dog still sits, and hops out on my "let's go" as I get her leash in one fluid (yeah right) motion.

It's really just three basic commands; sit, stay, then "let's go". Followed if I miss her leash by another "sit".

Does your dog sit and stay? Then you're there.

Your dog can do amazing stuff. Knotts dog is a mixed breed rescue pet and he has his Canine Good Citizen papers That dog's a jeenious like his Mom

Now, if I could ONLY get Mae to stay in the back seat of the car....