So, what would you do if...

ljowen123ljowen123
edited February 2009 in Shiba Inu (柴犬)
Your shiba had been placed out on a run (normal thing every day) line for a few moments and destroyed her collar and ran into the woods?


Well, let me give you the back story. Every day when my eldest nephew gets home from school, he places Jazz on the run line while he comes in, drops his book bag, goes to the bathroom and grabs her leash. He then goes out to walk her. She's out there for about 2 minutes by herself. He's supposed to hook her up by her harness, but obviously forgot to do that today.

Apparently what he did was run in, grab my brother (his father) and told him he needed help trapping Jazz because she got loose. He had been trying to catch her for 20 minutes (anyone else know the game - catch the shiba? the shiba always wins). Well, my brother walks out, sees Jazz and says "carpet" to which she calmly walks up to the door, goes right inside and sits down on the carpet.

I come home and my nephew was helping me unload groceries. Apparently, he forgot to tell her to stay, so...he holds open the door and out Jazz goes. This time, since my van is there, she jumps in and sits in her seat ready to go for a ride.

Crazy dog.

Comments

  • KFontaine04KFontaine04
    edited November -1
    LOL, the wonderful world of Jazz... Glad she didn't run away though and they couldn't find her!
  • ljowen123ljowen123
    edited November -1
    Jazz doesn't run very far - it took us months to get her to go outside willingly with anyone but me on walks. She doesn't like to be outside - we attribute this to her being kennelled outside.

    I'm very happy - I nearly freaked and it was after it was all over (they waited until I got home to tell me).
  • sunyatasunyata
    edited November -1
    Wow... Way to go for the 'carpet' command!
    I am very glad that she is okay and nice and cozy inside.

    So can we see pictures of this destroyed collar?
  • ljowen123ljowen123
    edited November -1
    My brother threw it away before I got home - so, I'm getting ready to order another one.
  • tsukitsunetsukitsune
    edited November -1
    ohmygosh! I'm SO glad she hung around!

    That would have given me a heart attack.
  • BradA1878BradA1878
    edited November -1
    lol - That's hilarious! "Carpet" - LOL.

    Jazz is a special Shiba, she reminds me so much of Kaia.

    Kaia ran out the front door to leave with a friend of ours once, I said "Kaia, inside."... She stopped dead, turned and walked inside, sat down, and just looked up at me. I asked "Where were you gonna go?". Then she just turned around and went and laid on the couch.

    Jazz and Kaia need to hang out!

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  • ljowen123ljowen123
    edited November -1
    Jazz is a nutcase. The first command we trained her on was "carpet". We have wood floors in our dining room and kitchen and the front door kind of opens into the dining room, so it made sense.

    I have a feeling Kaia and Jazz would get along quite well.
  • StaticNfuzzStaticNfuzz
    edited February 2009
    LJ you have done an awesome job of teaching Jazz an operative word. Your reserve word is one that automatically means good things and gets a dog to turn around and come home and only used for that purpose. We use the word "snacks" and it does the same thing. I know others who use "go home". Which can be taught by placing cookies under the door mat when you leave the house for a walk. When returning home you say go home and when you arrive dispense the treat. By the time you work up to it the dog is running for the door.

    Oh BTW Kaia got along very well with my red girl who is very much like Jazz!! .....Their personalities were quite in sync.

    Snf
  • santuzzasantuzza
    edited February 2009
    When I was really stressed out a few weeks ago I slipped on some ice and fell against my car. I wound up hurting my knee. About a day later Tosca and I were out at night and somehow her leash got away from me as I was messing with my scarf. I couldn't run after her but I still tried... and I fell on my face in the snow. I don't know if it was seeing me fall or hearing me yowl in pain, but Tosca ignored the smell of the deer that were just beyond a row of trees and came back to me. She was licking my face and whining until I proved to her that I could still walk.

    I'm going to try teaching her a special word like you have taught Jazz - I can't go around falling like that. Thank you for the unintended help.
  • KaddyKaddy
    edited November -1
    That's so interesting, Nancy!!! One of the 'emergency' recall methods we learned in training was falling to the ground and laying motionless. I've never had to try it (thankfully) but I always wondered how much truth there was in that method. The trainer even said she got a stray to come to her that way who was running dangerously close to traffic.
  • jacpotjacpot
    edited November -1
    WOW! That is awesome about Tosca!! And Jazz!! And Kaia! I will keep the "Stop, Drop, and Lay Dead" idea in my back pocket if we ever needed to resort to that (hopefully not)...

    The only time Daisy is willing to come on command is at the dog park, she's actually really good there off-leash (the only place she's off-leash) and will respond to our calling her even if she's super far away. At home, she could care less if we call her unless there is food involved... LOL...
  • ljowen123ljowen123
    edited November -1
    When I first got Jazz, I was very worried about door-bolting. The carpet command started for whenever I went to the door. When the doorbell rings, she goes to her crate. Jazz will come about 80% of the time when I call her, provided she isn't in her crate. I must say (for those of you reading and do not have a shiba or you just got a cute little puppy) that Jazz & Tosca are not your average shiba in this respect - they are a bit older and come from a rescue situation. These dogs value their new comfortable lifestyle and don't want to mess things up. I would never trust my shiba to be purely off-leash in a non-enclosed area (and that's knowing that she comes to me most of the time).
  • tsukitsunetsukitsune
    edited November -1
    Nancy - that is special! Your bond is stronger than you realize!

    I agree, LJ - the older rescue pups really do seem to value the good life. Hanzo never went very far from us, even on a 20ft lead at the state park, he'd stay very close and even learned on day 1 where our door was after walks, he new exactly where his bed was waiting for him! These are special dogs.
  • lindsaytlindsayt
    edited November -1
    Wow, I had a stroke nearly the one time I let my mom hold Ike's leash out in the street and she dropped it, he slipped it and off he went to go have a sniff. He has a cruddy recall. I think I turned white, but I grabbed a bag of chicken treats and shouted "Ike, chicken!" He came running back like no big deal. Do our dogs know about the chest pains they give us when they scare us like that????
  • xremiixremii
    edited November -1
    Pong always seems know when the leash is attached to her or not. So when I drop the leash by accident (or on purpose since we're literally two feet from the door of my house) she wouldn't run. Instead, she would just stand around and look at me like 'i'm not stupid. I know you can catch me." I use 2 6'' leashes attached to one another so I can always just step on it if she begins to run.

    But as soon as she hears the snap of the leash breaking or the clasp didn't snap on the collar, she'll bolt. Damn her smartness!
  • asiaasia
    edited November -1
    I'm so glad all is well! "carpet" - that's a good one!
  • ljowen123ljowen123
    edited November -1
    It's not a word she hears that often, so it made a good training word.
  • brandon_wbrandon_w
    edited November -1
    Jazz is so well trained. This is extra impressive because the word works with more people than just you.
  • ljowen123ljowen123
    edited November -1
    I'm not sure that she's well trained except for this word. She really does well when anyone in the house uses the word. My poor nephew was so freaked by her getting off leash, he couldn't think of a single command.
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