How to make your dog come to you: step by step instructions
The weather's fine, and you'd love for your dog to get the kind of exercise and socialization that can't happen at the end of a leash. Maybe you even have a new dog park in the neighbourhood.
You've got just one problem: Once your dog's off leash, you're not sure you can get him back. The traditional obedience method of teaching a recall starts from a sit-stay, the command dogs learn to sit and then stay put.
But for the average dog owner, the stay is a huge bother to train, and it's the long way around. You just want your dog to come back; you don't need him to sit first.
And a dog that responds to "come" in a class or in your yard might not do so in the park. Dogs can't generalize the same way humans do. To a dog's mind, you're not asking for the same thing.
