When I saw Riot's video tape with his "gramma", I thought how great it is to see a dog relate like that to more than one person. I am afraid I failed at that.
Tosca will not listen to a soul unless it's me. She gets this "you can just get lost" look on her face and, at first blush, it was what I wanted. While I think it's great because she will never listen to the wrong person or ever be confused as to whose orders she must take, it's not so great when I think of what might happen if a situation arose where taking commands from another person was necessary.
For example, she really likes my SO and enjoys his company, but when it comes to discipline, it is very clear that she does not see him as anything other than somebody she does something for if she wants to. If I leave the room she instantly follows me unless I tell her to stay. He can tell her to sit 5 times and she won't if she doesn't feel like it. She goes completely deaf. I say it the 6th time and she's sitting. He walks with her sometimes and he says she behaves very well, but I wonder if a tempting distraction came along if she would listen to him. This scares me a little.
I would like to work on this, is there a secret or a method to making her a bit more open to instructions from certain people?
Tosca will not listen to a soul unless it's me. She gets this "you can just get lost" look on her face and, at first blush, it was what I wanted. While I think it's great because she will never listen to the wrong person or ever be confused as to whose orders she must take, it's not so great when I think of what might happen if a situation arose where taking commands from another person was necessary.
For example, she really likes my SO and enjoys his company, but when it comes to discipline, it is very clear that she does not see him as anything other than somebody she does something for if she wants to. If I leave the room she instantly follows me unless I tell her to stay. He can tell her to sit 5 times and she won't if she doesn't feel like it. She goes completely deaf. I say it the 6th time and she's sitting. He walks with her sometimes and he says she behaves very well, but I wonder if a tempting distraction came along if she would listen to him. This scares me a little.
I would like to work on this, is there a secret or a method to making her a bit more open to instructions from certain people?