Teaching Your Dog to Come When Called
One of the most important parts of being a good dog parent is teaching your dog to come when called. I say this from experience. My first two dogs came whenever I called no matter what. I had spent weeks training them the basics: to come when called, to sit on command, to lie down, give me their paw, and to stay in place.
Carmie, my dear beloved puppy who is no longer with us (pictured here - I use her pic as my placeholder now), rarely came when she was called. This caused unending amounts of stress in our household. The reason she never obeyed this command (altho she was quite good with all the others) is because I don't think we taught her to come, when she was a puppy. She was my son's dog - and he was too young and too uninterested in actually training her, back when she was a puppy. Her training was all hit and miss. As this article says, "An untrained dog is an insecure dog that does not know what is expected of it."


