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CHAPTER 13
Visitors at the Door
13.1 Which Dogs Should Learn This Exercise
13.2 Overview
13.3 Step 1: What to Do When the Doorbell Rings
13.4 Step 2: Keep the dog in a Down-Stay Receiving Treats Until He Calms Down
13.5 Step 3: What to Do When the Guest Enters the House
13.6 Step 4: Increasing the Interval Between Treats
13.7 Troubleshooting
13.1 Which Dogs Should Learn this Exercise
Any dog that barks or jumps on visitors, darts out the door, or barks and rushes
around when people are leaving the house should learn to lie down calmly on
a rug during these situations. Some dogs do well when rewarded with food for
behaving calm. But the more challenging dogs need to learn to lie down calmly in
a stepwise fashion in the face of these high distractions. And even if they’ve gone
through the down-stay stage of training, they usually need to specifically work on
the same “place” and DOWN-STAY behavior with the highest distraction of visitors
at the door.
13.2 Overview
Your dog can “place” and down-stay on the rug with high-level distractions from
Chapter 12. Now it’s time to practice with actual visitors. You’ll get the quickest
results if you set up visits where neighbors, friends, or guests visit at least 2 times
a day, until Fido gets the idea. In fact, it’s best to have a bunch of visits in a short
time span of several days to a week, especially if you tend to have a lot of people
coming in and out of the house regularly, but you can also train just when you
have your regular visitors come to the door.
At this point all visits should be controlled so that Fido ONLY has a chance to
respond correctly when visitors come to the door. If 100% of visitor arrivals are
correct, he’ll soon have fantastic door behavior. If he gets opportunities when
you aren’t prepared and he doesn’t behave correctly, it will take a long time to
form a good habit. The more practice sessions you can get over a short time
span (the first few days) the more quickly a good habit can form.
If you’ve been consistent about picking the Treat&Train™ system up between
sessions and ending the training session before Fido loses interest, Fido should be
glued to his rug whenever the system comes out. If this is the case, then you can
now leave it out all the time.
Only reward Fido when you send him to his rug and then always call him off
instead of letting him choose when to get off. He will quickly learn that treats
only come out when you cue him to “place.”
TREAT RATE back to every 3 seconds so Fido does not have much chance to
bark. Then systematically increase the interval between treats again with
that particular distraction. (Refer to Step 6a [Knocking on the Door] for more
information.)
If Fido is still barking at distractions and it's not a trained bark, it's likely that
you've increased the intensity of the distractions too quickly. Start from the
beginning and slowly increase the level of the distractions.
CHAPTER 12
Game 5 – Down-Stay with Distractions
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