I guess the thing I would like to say is. I got a dog trainer to come over when the dog was fairly young, maybe 6 months. The bathroom thing was fairly easy. Walk the dog. Scold her when she goes in the house. You don’t need to beat a Doberman. But if you are a single woman and you have a male doberman, I would recommend a trainer. I am big and there was never any doubt who was alpha, but I think it is someone essential with boy dobies to show them you are boss. Raising your voice will generally do it. I would recommend a woman to get a female dobie. First there is less macho competition but second, the mind sets are really similar. A female dobie is really incredibly smart and very devoted to the woman in the house. There was no doubt in my house over who’s dog that dobie was. When my wife went to bed, the dobie went to bed with her. They went in the car together. When my wife cooked, the dobie would sit in the kitchen with her. My wife would talk to dog just like a girlfriend “Miss, I think the cookies need more sugar”.

But I would get a trainer at least for 1 session. He can evaluate your situation and give you some good habits and good tips. We went outside and worked together on how to walk the dog on a leash, with “stop, sit, stay, lay, and come” voice and hand commands. It only took one session and then the dog and I worked together for a few days. She got it down quickly and it got kind of boring and we never really messed with again.

So, like 3 years later, we were at an outdoor festival that went along this big urban street with 5 lanes of traffic. The dog was off her leash and we went to cross the street. We were about half way across and the “walk” sign started flashing. I said “Come on miss, we gotta run” and took off. Any other time she would have followed, but with all the cars and people, she turned around and went back to the other side. The light changed and the cars started moving. Miss was panicking being on the other side of the street and she was kind of pacing and didn’t know what to do, like she was about to try to cross to get to me. This is across 5 lanes of traffic, horns, car noise, a really busy intersection. I held up my hand with the “Stay” hand signal, raise your hand with your palm facing the dog, and she froze in place. Kept in mind that she is 50 feet away with moving cars in between and we haven’t done anything with these signals for years. Then I gave the “Sit” signal, snap your fingers and point your index finger down, and she sat down without hesitation. She knew I was putting the situation in control. There were people by me watching this, worried to death she would run in front of the cars. When she sat down immediately on a hand signal, no voice command because it was useless at this distance with the noise, the people were amazed and said “I can’t believe what I just saw”. When the light changed I gave the “come” signal, you do your whole hand straight down like you were starting a race and leave it pointing to the ground it in front of you. She sprinted over full speed.

So the trainer had payoff if only for that incident. We didn’t train the rott the same way and I always regretted it. I thought he was too stupid for it.

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