Another thing I’m going to start working with them on is how to behave when it comes to loading up. Right now I have to leash each individual dog and walk them to the back of the truck and tell them “load up” and they’ll jump in. I would like to be able to open their kennel, say load up, and have hem go straight to the truck and get in the box without me walking them. Right now they wanna take off and do laps around the yard and have me cussing at myself for trying it. There’s no reason I shouldn’t be able to do it, other than my own slackness in training. My other pet peeve, that is also my fault due to lack of training, is that every dog tries t dump when I open the box. It’s an hour ride to my land, and there’s a gas station 5 minutes from there that I collar up at. It’s always a pain because when I open the box every dog wants to bum rush out. Like I said, this all comes down to me not doing what I need to do on my end.
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One trick that will help you is to start feeding them in the bed of your truck, puppies and grown dogs and every time you bring em tell em "load up" then feed em, even the stubborn older dogs will more than likely figure out pretty quick that when you say load up its a good thing and they will want to do it on their own. I have a couple that want to run around and act a fool for a couple minutes before they load up occasionally so I normally let one of my grown dogs that will run and jump right in the bed go first......... most of the time its monkey see monkey do.
