A dog's vocabulary

[misfitz]

I just made a list of all the commands Sienna knows, and she knows nearly 35 different ones! Not including non-command words that she knows like 'walk' or 'dinner' or 'mom'. Made me feel good about her training!

I also (finally) made notes about what each command means and what about it needs work. Made me feel less good about her training

How many commands do your dogs know? Does anyone else keep a training log? I keep reading about how helpful that is, but am not the most organized person but I can now see where it would be extremely helpful..at least for those of us 'training nerds'

[lizzybeth727]

I keep training logs for my dogs at work... It's extremely helpful because I usually have several dogs at the same general level that need slightly different techniques on different behaviors, and I'd have to do a lot of backtracking if I didn't write it all down to keep on track.

I haven't done training logs at home with my dog because basically I'm not that organized and because there's no time line I have to be focused on with her so it doesn't matter how long it takes to teach a behavior. Plus we've been training together for 5 years (versus the dogs at work that would be only a few weeks or months), so she now picks up new behaviors VERY quickly. Though I admit it still would be helpful.