Has Anyone Had This Problem With Terriers

[vixen 528]

 

Did you get the dog as a puppy? if so i would put his behaviour down to disobedience and not respecting you when you recall him, if you got him when he was a bit older then i'd say it's because he probably done it in his last home and came back whenever the heck he felt like it. If he were mine he'd be on a lead and never let off till i knew the swine was responding to me, i wouldn't be using collars of any kind, a dog should want to be with you and work with you not be forced into it through pain or bribed into it with food,pet hate of mine is people giving dogs titbits to get them to respond to them..... jmho

Some dogs respond to love/affection, some to food it's the reward that works. I've maintained throughout that the collar should be the last resort

 

I trained a staff to be a bloody good gundog through the use of heavy play and cheese

 

yes it's each to their own when training their dogs to respond, but i personally never have or will use food to have any of my dogs respond, if i need them to come back to me very quickly in a situation when out and about i want them to respond to me and come straight back there and then,i dont want to be digging around in my pockets for food or maybe forget to lift food to bribe them with, i just find a pat on the head and a "good lad/lass" works, but as you say... everybody has their own ways of working