So this morning, my dad and I were training Ria to come to us whenever she heard our voice saying, "Come." We also make her sit after she has come to us. We put a leash on her and lightly tug, saying, "Come." When she does come on her own without us giving her the tug a lot, we give her a treat. She is getting the hang of it, but we will need to practice this daily with her. We have a thirty-foot-long leash, but we only use about four feet of it. At the end of our training, we did it about fifteen feet away, and she came to me. I already knew she would come anyway because she knows me a lot. But the only thing is if she would come to my dad. So we tried that out too and she was heading towards his direction but went a bit off at the end. So my dad tugged the leash towards him and said, " Come". And she did.
We are starting to train her because she has a super high prey drive. When we are on walks, she literally chases anything that is moving, such as people ( even though she is scared of people, she will go bounding towards them if they are jogging ), dogs, cats, birds, and deer. I try to snap her out of it each time, but it just gets worse and worse every day. So, we also need to teach her to " leave it." I've been watching videos on how to stop dogs from chasing anything that is moving fast. Here's a video I found:
My dad wants to teach Ria someday how to salute, too! 😂 So I searched it up, and there's a thing called the " Shy" trick, where the dog puts its paw over its head for a few seconds and then takes it off. But instead of us calling it the " Shy" trick, we can call it " Salute!" It would work the same. 😁