How To Train Your Dog To Come When Called

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This is pretty optimistic if your dog is a Cairn Terrier, because any self-respecting Cairn will run at least a few strides in the opposite direction when you call. Just to tease you and show you that she's coming after all only because SHE feels like it.

So yes you need a fence and a leash. Because if she sees a varmint, forget it.

But you won't freeze as long at the back door in the winter if you train her to come when called. More important, when there's danger, that training may save her life.

So here is another video guide, this one for training your dog to come when called, put together with the advice of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in London.

VideoJug: How To Train Your Dog To Come When Called

Why did I say this was optimistic for a Cairn? Because as Col. Potter writes:

Cairns will almost INVARIABLY:

Chase squirrels

Chase bunnies

Chase bugs

Chase bikes

Chase paper fluttering down the street

Chase anything that moves

Chase things that aren't moving, just to GET them moving so they'll have something to chase

...Bolt out any open door in the blink of an eye

LET ME REPEAT THAT: THEY WILL BOLT OUT ANY OPEN DOOR IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE

And won't return until they're good and ready.

Sometimes not even then

Refuse to come -- unless they want to

...and can never, ever, ever be trusted off-leash, EVER.

Not even for a second. Regardless of how well-trained you have deluded yourself into believing he is

Col Potter is right. I had a BLIND Cairn Terrier who did that!

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