Does your dog obey you?

First comes Love. Lots of love. But when telling them "down" or "Sit" or "no" it must be as a command. Not as a request; your voice must mean business. Then when they do what you want, praise praise praise. Especially important to have an obedient dog if it is a large dog and jumps on people, a no-no. Obedience to me means that my dog comes when I call it. When the dog walks beside me, it is always on my left side, and at heal. The dog does not pull on the lease. It must sit, (and it's bottom stays down) until I release with a word, or call it's name. The dog should not barrel into the individual pouring it's food into it's bowl. It should wait until the command word is given to proceed. If you need specific instructions with any of these particular problems, I would be glad to share how we handled the experience with our dogs. Hard won difficult experience, and painfully endured.

Some dogs are just stubborn. Like mine is. She's a year and 1/2 old. And hard headed. we are still training her. Not getting very far.So you are not alone. I'll have to let you know if my dog starts to obey. She may also be spoiled. Who knows? On the whole though, she is a good dog.

Our dogs (and cats actually LOL) DO listen to me BUT I'm the one who spends the most time with them so its no wonder that they don't listen AS WELL to anyone else in the house...How did I get them to obey me? Just by being consistant really...much like you'd be with a toddler...

My 2 boxers only obey when I have a piece of meat in my hand or when I make the angry tone in my voice. If I talk to them sweetly, you would think they are deaf. They do not even look at me, let alone obey. They have been like this from when they were puppies and I am sure I trained them well. I think that the breed is simply stubborn or silly maybe.

Sounds like they've learned to try and have gotten away with it before, so now they try even harder to get what they are used to. Those dogs don't see you as the leader, they are. The key is to not give in. You need to be in charge, not the dogs. A dog that has access to everything he values by himself doesn't respect the human owner and is less likely to listen. Look up the NILIF (Nothing in Life is Free) program. My dog listens to me all the time, cause he knows if he wants a treat, food, go outside, get playtime, he'll have to come to me and 'ask' for it. Of course it means that the dog has its basic commands down (sit, down, stay, paw, come, etc), so you may want to look into basic obedience training classes or otherwise find out how to train a dog. Training a dog isn't something you do for a few days or a few weeks, it should continue throughout the dog's life every day. I have 2-3 training sessions 5 minutes each every day with my dog.

I have 2 dogs and they will listen to me when they want to listen. Most of the time they are both stubborn and want things their way. I didn't have either of mine when they were puppies so not sure about it on that aspect. Mine are good dogs just have a mind of their own.

Are you kidding me? Dogs obey? I have three and they all do as they please. Probably my fault, they are my kids now since mine have grown up and left the nest. I took one of my dogs to obedience school and he did great while we were there. The only problem is, they are not like children and you have to work with them everyday so that they don't forget. They are smart enough to know which buttons to push though.

My dogs are not hi-bred, they are but ordinary dogs here in the Philippines. But they obey me, they are not loose, they are tied for they might bite other people. I am living alone and only cats and dogs are my companions.

My dog never obeys me. Yeah my dog is wuite the blackmailer! LOL. He knows I can't resist him so he continues disobeying me... I have to admit... I spoiled mine a little too much. I guess we have to be firm in discipling our dogs otherwise they will never obey us.

my dog i did have didnt obey me too much at all!!

well not all the time

I have no experience to raise a dog.Actually it must spend a lot of time on the dog.But i need work ,i have no extra time to take care of him.If you don't have enough time to care about him,he will be pity.