pawfection

I really don’t have a strong opinion either way. I think both have their strengths and their faults. With luring I feel like you can get the desired behavior to happen quicker so you can enforce it, but I do think it isn’t as effective of an enforcement so it takes a little longer for the dog to really understand what you want. Where capturing can take longer to make the behavior happen, but I think the connection of behavior=praise/treat/whatever happens faster.That is just in my personal experience working with my dogs.It really depends on the dog though. Owen does great with a lure, and so does Arya and Sandy. Tjeajte doesn’t seem to get it at all. I spent a good two weeks luring her into sit and she just wasn’t getting it. Tried capturing and she is starting to understand it within like half an hour.Anything that teaches and reinforces a behavior is training really. I don’t think one is really better than the other, it just depends on the trainer and the dog they are working with.

ohshitohshitohshit that is hard!I guess I could be a total nerd and say the day I brought Owen home! It was just a bit before my birthday, so smack dab in the middle of summer. He seemed big as a pup (well, a 5 month old) but looking back he was so small. He was really nervous too in the car. I fed him french fries most of the way until he fell asleep.