struggling with puppie

biggebruv

I'm worried my puppie does not like me he's 2 months old now got last Saturday but he hardly ever comes when I call him and seems to ignore me alot and he never seems to respond to his name yet please say this is normal ?

Nody

Yes; first of all you're a stranger secondly you're dealing with an equivalent of a 4 year old child who you expect to have picked up recall and know it's name out of the blue? That's stuff that can take 6+ months if ever to learn and you expect him to know it in less than a week.

volchitsa

Saturday and this is Friday? Seems way too soon to reach any conclusion at all, except that the poor baby is feeling lost. And it is a baby.

I got a great tip, when we got our pup a while back, which was not to use the feeding bowl at all for at least the first two weeks or a month, but to hand feed the kibble, so the pup would get to associate you, and your hands, with feeling happy and safe. I really think it helped loads.

cocker5

biggebruv wrote: »

I'm worried my puppie does not like me he's 2 months old now got last Saturday but he hardly ever comes when I call him and seems to ignore me alot and he never seems to respond to his name yet please say this is normal ?

6 days you have him correct? and hes only 8 weeks...

expecting WAY too much too soon... like months and months too soon.

OP have you ever owned a dog before?

biggebruv

Nody wrote: »

Yes; first of all you're a stranger secondly you're dealing with an equivalent of a 4 year old child who you expect to have picked up recall and know it's name out of the blue? That's stuff that can take 6+ months if ever to learn and you expect him to know it in less than a week.

yeah I guess when you put it like that I'm just overreacting

biggebruv

cocker5 wrote: »

6 days you have him correct? and hes only 8 weeks...

expecting WAY too much too soon... like months and months too soon.

OP have you ever owned a dog before?

yes I got my last dog put down back in February
I just forgot the puppie stage and am slightly nervous I dunno lol

cocker5

biggebruv wrote: »

yes I got my last dog put down back in February
I just forgot the puppie stage and am slightly nervous I dunno lol

ahh ok OP just be patient... extremely patient, its take months and months for a new puppy to settle and learn the ropes

Evac101

Best trick for teaching recall I've used was one that our trainer showed us - we were over at his last year with a 9 week old pup and he and his family each grabbed some treats and, over the course of about 90 minutes, would call the pup to wherever they might have been around the house/garden and would reward it with a treat and fuss if it was fast enough to get to them (like 10-15 seconds). By the end of the visit the pup associated the recall command with food/attention/pleasure. We've continued that habit of periodically calling whichever one of the dogs we're working with whenever we're in different locations in the house, or out and about. Works a treat in our experience.

*By the way, I'm sure I've seen others say this but you'll never finish training with your dog until the day it dies

Bushmanpm

This is fantastic!
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volchitsa wrote:

I got a great tip, when we got our pup a while back, which was not to use the feeding bowl at all for at least the first two weeks or a month, but to hand feed the kibble, so the pup would get to associate you, and your hands, with feeling happy and safe. I really think it helped loads.

Also, reward based training helped us so much. Get a bag with lots of small treats and start off by just giving them to the pup as a freebie to establish the you & them good association then slowly lessen the frequency but use the treats to reward any behavior you approve of, such as going to the toilet on their training pad or outside, recall, sitting, LEAVING something of interest to them etc.
It worked wonders with our two who are renowned as a very difficult breed to deal with.
Oh, and good luck!

Kash

We have our puppy 3 weeks now, and she is delighted to see any member of the family when they come home at this stage. Her tail will wag light mad, and she'll come over to greet the new arrival. Everyone feeds her, so she associates us with food and belly rubs and general goodness.

She knows her name to a certain extent - she'll look at me when I say it about 75% of the time. She'll come when called maybe 60% of the time, more if I'm in the position she knows means Come Here (i.e. she's far more receptive to the visual cue of me hunkering down than me saying the words Come Here)

We've been actively working on those and other basic obedience, I always have a pocket full of her food - not special treats, just a part of her next meal. Our youngest dog is 9 now, so we were out of the puppy frame of mind too. I found kikopup videos on youtube great - definitely worth a look.

Best of luck!

volchitsa

Kash wrote: »

We have our puppy 3 weeks now, and she is delighted to see any member of the family when they come home at this stage. Her tail will wag light mad, and she'll come over to greet the new arrival. Everyone feeds her, so she associates us with food and belly rubs and general goodness.

She knows her name to a certain extent - she'll look at me when I say it about 75% of the time. She'll come when called maybe 60% of the time, more if I'm in the position she knows means Come Here (i.e. she's far more receptive to the visual cue of me hunkering down than me saying the words Come Here)

We've been actively working on those and other basic obedience, I always have a pocket full of her food - not special treats, just a part of her next meal. Our youngest dog is 9 now, so we were out of the puppy frame of mind too. I found kikopup videos on youtube great - definitely worth a look.

Best of luck!

I'd forgotten about this, and it's true, for ages she would come far more readily to us bending down and arms out than to words, or even to her name.

The thing about her coming to anyone in the family is maybe related to the pup herself, ours is still delighted to see new arrivals, so will happily celebrate anyone coming in, and was like that when small too, even complete strangers who looked friendly, so maybe that's a little different from the one to one relationship the OP is looking to see developing? I've only really seen that clearly in her from about a year old, when I first saw her acting a bit jealous of one of us paying too much attention to another dog. Maybe she did it before and we didn't notice. But not after a week or two, for sure!

tk123

Where did you get him? Is he just distracted or actually avoiding you?