To ask how you get your dog in from the garden ?

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My 9 month old puppy has stopped being obedient when it comes to getting the dogs in from the garden he is irritating beyond belief. He knocks like a lunatic at the door then as I open it he runs away. At first we had little tricks to get him in like turning the hose on (he would come running) over fusing the other dog and shaking his food. Now he won't even cross the threshold for a chunk of ham ? I remember having this problem with our Dobermans growing up and at time to get them in from the garden we would ring the front doorbell and they would bound in.
What "tricks" do others do to get the bastard dog in ?

Scream threats loudly. Doesn't actually work 99% of the time. She does the smiling and jumping thing at me.

Current dog somehow has 100% recall. Previous dog was a twat but if you called, rattled a tin and then shut the door when she ignored you, she'd come haring back.

If your garden is secure I would completely ignore dog go inside and wander off and do stuff...

Think you need to stop it being a game!

Alas my dog will only stay outside if it's a sunbathing opportunity...

The more you shout or try and encourage our puppy in, the life he thinks it's a game and refuses.

Now I just turn around and walk in, out of his sight, and he runs straight in.

Practice calling pup whilst in the house and rewarding with food/toy/ball every time. Try training him to the whistle, same way. We have a wayward one and 99% he now comes to call wherever we are.

Ignore the pup? He wants to play a game. How long is he out there? I just call my dog's name and he runs in (sorry not helpful!)

I whisper "sweeties" and he comes bounding! It has a 100% success rate (he is 6) his sweeties are one or part of those dentastix or if I've bought him something else as a treat. He knows where they're kept and goes straight to the cupboard. Both DCs know that if they ever so much as think the word "sweeties" they have to give him one so he knows he will always get one when that word is said.

He is probably at that age of arseholery i would shut the door and walk away he thinks its fun. Mine will come in if i say in .. if not i just close the door

My dog was like this in his 'teenage' years. Thought everything was a game and he was trying to be the boss. I had so many mornings where I ended up late for work because I had spent 30 bloody minutes trying not to get him back inside. I don't have any magic advice apart from keep up general recall training and hoping they calm down as they get older! Ours did eventually.

He is definitely at the arsehole age. Just ignore him and he will come in eventually.

If i need him in and he wont i say doyawantcheese he will do anything for cheese

Teach him "uh oh!" where if he does the wrong thing he gets ignored - then throw a massive puppy party when he does the right thing. You have to go right back to basics to drill it in all ooooover again.

Yep cheese always works for my dog

Yep, the age of being an awful arsehole. I hated my dog at this age - bed was an unbelievable dickhead. Shut the door and ignore him.

I can't get my dog to bloody go OUT.

Mum's dog does this, we just close the door to and go do other things, she comes in eventually. If she's rushed for time she'll ring the front door bell, that works too

I like my dog now, I hasten to add. He's two now and much nicer!

If your garden is secure I would completely ignore dog go inside and wander off and do stuff

Yep. That's what I did. That game soon ended.

Agree if garden is secure shut the door and move out of sight.

Friends dog is a nightmare for procrastinating in the garden, it's the only thing that works other than the doorbell but that sets her barking for ages

My buggers is always desperate to come in they do my nut! Desperate to go out for all of 30 seconds and then want to come in again to annoy me.

Squeak a squeeeeeeky toy v loudly

OneWithTheForce - I laughed when I saw this thread title, but laughed even more when I read your post! I do exactly this - our pups are 8 months and 4 months and the little one is really stubborn and stands there looking at me, refusing to come in. One day I shouted 'do you want a sweetie?' and he nearly gave himself whiplash spinning round and galloping in . I didn't even know I'd inadvertently taught them the word 'sweetie' but it works and now DH and I both use it to instant effect (only as a last resort though as they have to have one once it's been promised).

If you haven't already, you need to practice recall through the door without it being THE OFFICIAL END OF FUNTIMES. You let pup out, let him do his or her thing, then call him or her back. When they come, they get a treat/toy play then are promptly sent back out to have more fun, preferably to do something that they really enjoy like play ball. Repeat ad nauseum and the little bugger won't associate it with the DEATH OF FUN.

Thanks everyone some great advice. I have been trying to do the ignore thing in the last month but he makes a horrendous banging at the back door scrambling with both paws that seems to vibrate the house at the same time he is smearing glass door with mud and scratching it's hard to ignore then as I say when I open door off he runs. The garden is secure. I think I shall leave him out in the rain for a bit. I opened the window the other day and he jumped through it like a cat flap !

I show the food before they go out. Does the trick most of the time.