I'll come in when I'm ready......
My newly adopted F Pemmy has proven her independence. When I ask here to "come in" she casually ignores me. So I go inside, wait a second and look at the door.......there she IS!! Coming in or going out has to be HER decision not mine. It is only a matter of a few seconds, a minute at most but Winnie proves that she is the boss, not me.
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Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on
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Yup, i have one of those but she waits much longer than a minute...we are working on this and it's gotten better. A minute I can see but in my case it's frustrating!
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Permalink Reply by Anna Morelli on
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Do you call her and give her a treat? This is the first step, repeated many times outside ( call, put your hand in her collar, give her a treat and let her go again. Wait 5 -10 or 15 minutes and repeat. Chage the intervals so it's not predictable.) When you want her inside, bring her in to get the treat, teach her to come with you to where you keep the treats. You can use a leash at first ( you have taught her that you will put your hand in the collar, before you give the treat, so now you can add the leash) , but be enthusiastic about the going in the house part. It takes some time to get a dog you've adopted into your routine as you do not usually know what the dog experienced before. She sounds like a good girl, I don't think she's trying to be the boss.
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Permalink Reply by Sammy on
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I'm sorry if I gave the impression that she would NOT come....it's only when I make a casual remark in a normal tone of voice ("you want to come inside?") that Winnie waits for "her turn". When she is needed immediately I raise the pitch of my voice ("WINNIE---COME!!"...good girl etc) I reward immediately with a treat so she's pretty well adjusted to come when REALLY needed. I just think it's amusing that Corgis have such a separate agenda and, frankly, I don't blame them!! Thanks for your good ideas and happy Corgi-ing!
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Permalink Reply by John Wolff on
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Al went through an adolescent phase -- perhaps 1 y.o., as I recall -- when he learned that he did not, in fact, have to come inside when called, and that I could not, in fact, catch him. Oh, did he love that game! Defying Your Owner was better than a tennis ball! Mercifully, it passed.
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Permalink Reply by Joe on
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Haha. This made me think of our second corgi Chloe. She's about 3 months old and I live in an upstairs apartment. She can go up the stairs but after being outside she slowly goes up them. Sometimes she gives me the look like can you just carry me.
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Permalink Reply by Ella and Lily on
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Ella ignores me when I tell her to come inside as well. To fix this I started telling her "Goodbye" and walking away. She can't stand me being out of sight so she'll come running. I don't think it is a trying to be the boss issue, but more of an "I'm interested in what's outside so I'm not paying attention to you" issue.
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Permalink Reply by Emily & Scout on
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99 percent of the time, Scout will come back inside when called with no hassle. BUT she knows when I am about to go somewhere. If I take her out right before I leave, then open the door to let her in, she will just plop down in the middle of the yard and refuse to go in. She somehow knows that if she goes in at that point in time, she will be left alone, and she doesn't like that idea. She's luckily not bad about mornings before work, b/c I think she knows I am usually in a hurry, but any other time she's like that. I've actually had to go over and carry her in a couple times. Luckily she's small enough so it is still cute :)
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Permalink Reply by Nancy Bauer on
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Its a girl thing! My now angel Emma was that way and my rescued Katie is too...her son Jack isn't! And if that isn't proof its a girl thing, my princess mare, Penny, does things on her own time too! She always cracks me up getting on the trailer, if I try and walk her on, she will stop, but if I wait a minute and let HER decide, no problems!
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Permalink Reply by Joelle Soupe on
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My Charlie has started to do this recently. Instead of taking his leash off when we're in the lobby of my building, heading into the elevator (it's got two sets of doors to enter, so there isn't a big chance if him running outside from the lobby) like I used to, which he was so good at (get in elevator when I get in), I do not unleash him until we're in the apartment now, so sometimes I have to pull him slightly in the direction of the elevator so he knows we are going in now, not later, not whenever he feels like it. Maybe try keeping her leashed. If it's in your enclosed yard and your dog is off leash and she won't go in, I usually ask my corgi to sit, stay, and do a trick (then he expects a reward), which I then pick him up, to take him inside to get. That's his thought process probably, where mine is (trick him into staying still so I can bring him inside). Plus it will reinforce "house = good things, ie treat".
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Permalink Reply by Becky S on
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That's Brody too... one night (in the summer) I had already gone to bed, DH has very little patience for this and so let him stay out. Well, he wasn't the one getting up at 2AM when Brody finally decided he wanted to come in and was letting the whole neighborhood know. I have a little basket with their "cookies" in and they are in one of those "crinkly" sounding bags from PetCo. Sometimes all I have to do is make noise with the bag. He's never sure which time the cookie will be coming, so usually gets him in pretty quick. Lilly on the other hand doesn't like to be out if one of the humans is home. She will sit at the back door, Brody will bark for us to let her in, but stay out on the patio, even sometimes when it's raining he'll just go in his dog house.
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