Dog Training “Good House Rules” – Honey the Great Dane
www.bighoneydog.com / Honey the Great Dane ‘re-learns’ her “house rules” in her new home in Brisbane. Honey was taught these rules from Day 1 at home as a baby puppy – really worthwhile putting in the time & effort to train these sorts of “house rules” as it makes the dog much easier & safer to live with. No worries about bolting out the door and running into the street or ‘counter-surfing’! Much easier to start young than to try & correct bad habits later. Just need some repetition & consistency in the beginning and some “refresher training” in new environments and the dog will stick to good habits. Having these same rules as the old home actually helped Honey settle quicker into her new one, as dogs like the security of consistent boundaries & routines.
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Honey! We are inspired to work harder on out manners at the doors.
I love rule #2 & 3, so important! I play a game similar to that with my dogs! Very cool! I have a few clients with door dashers, so it is so important to teach them to stay/wait at the front door. Did you actually train them in the beginning with a clicker? Nice video! So important to have rules and to be consistent. 5*s
Thanks! Actually, no, because we started training this from a baby pup, before I got into clicker training, I just used a combination of praise/treats & verbal “correction” with occasional interruptors and then redirection into the right behaviour. Basically what you saw in the video – although this looks easier than the original because Honey already knew her “Out” and “Wait” commands and these rules – it was just teaching her to respect them in a new environment.
I AM very lucky though that Honey is very sensitive to verbal “telling off” and this is enough of a “punishment” to put her off doing things – eg. if she ignored the rule and ran out through the gate, I would yell at her “NO! Bad Girl!” – and then praise her for coming back and waiting at the boundary – and she would not run out again because she is really sensitive to my displeasure. Don’t know if it would be as effective with another dog that was more thick-skinned and “independent”!
We have but she seems to ignore them – often prefers to lie on the bare wooden floors next to them! Anyway, she is getting quite used to walking on the floors now and I don’t believe in mollycoddling dogs too much!
I’m so happy to see Honey in her new home! I was worried about how she’d feel about flying but I see she’s doing great!
thanks for the response! =D honey really is a perfect example of the breed, and i am really inspired by your videos to get another dane someday. keep up the great work at your new home!
thats a nice video!
You have a really nice horse
damn that bitch is soo annoying and im not talking bout the dog
I’m learning the calming signs and I found out that dogs with a open mouth are happy! I’m sadt to notice my goliath (great dane) is closed mouth all the time other then going to the dog park…how can I fix this?
I’m learning the calming signs and I found out that dogs with a open mouth are happy! I’m sad to notice my goliath (great dane) is closed mouth all the time other then going to the dog park…how can I fix this?
I’d be so confused if I was your dog. She’s well trained but when you were in the kitchen you woud tell her “no Honey out!” and as soon as she waked away you woud use and excited high pitched voice to praise her and she would get excited and want to come to you but obviously you woud tell her “no Honey out” again. You shoud come out of the kitchen to give her praise and use a treat or pet her to show you are happy with her. Dogs rely mostly on smell and touch not sound.
@doubledouble55 – actually, I’d have to respectfully disagree – dogs understand a lot from tone of voice and can be trained without the use of treats or pats all the time. Honey understands perfectly what she needs to do – how many dogs are successfully trained to stay out of the kitchen, without the use of barriers or constant supervision? We can even go out leaving food on counters.
@doubledouble55 – I did not come out of the kitchen to praise her because she needs to understand that she has to remain outside even when I am inside – no point if I always have to follow her out to ensure she follows the rules.
@doubledouble55 – FYI – if you take a look through our other videos, you’ll see that Honey is more highly-trained and reliable than most dogs and is the first Great Dane in the world to successfully compete in Canine Freestyle, as well as doing Obedience, Agility and Therapy Work – so I guess I must be doing something right with my training methods!
@hsinyicohen Whoa you are full of yourself! You remind me of those girls in my class who put their hands up in class when the teacher asks us a question just to hear themselves talk. I was honestly just asking about the freestyle thing because I was intrested, I’ve never seen a great dane do freestyle and I was wondering if it was a class with other great danes or just a regular one.
I guess you can hide behind the fact that your dog is a great dane and that’s why you’re not really good at it. She’s slow, is off cue a lot and in your other videos, which I can’t believe I bothered to watch because this one was sooo boring, you use a lot of the same moves. Though I don’t hold it against your dog because Great danes are slow so she can’t help that but I think I can hold blame on you for a boring routine.
Oh and just to let you know I wasn’t saying that dog’s had to learn with treats or pats I was just saying that making that screechy annoying ass voice to praise a dog would make any dog confused because of the fact that that is the voice a person would use when they are trying to excite a dog. But maybe you can’t help it.
i love your work with Honey, i plan to have a Great Dane when i own my first home and your videos motivate me to be the best trainer/mom i can be. Thank-you soo much for Honey’s videos. She is a blessing to watch
Tell me, (3:30 – 3:36) how come you did not give honey the command “stay” (or “wait”) after you told her, and she obeyed, to “sit”?
I commend you for not correcting her (i.e. “no!”) after she got up from “sit”; you just gave her the command a second time, because, frankly, she did not do anything wrong; she did “sit”; she just did not “stay” (or “wait”).
Anyway, that’s just something I noticed, but I’m very impressed with how well honey is trained. She’s a beautiful dog.
@hsinyicohen
Every moron on youtube thinks they’re animal experts. I completely understood what you were doing: instant gratification.
Honey is HUGE. She’s the biggest dog I’ve ever seen. She’s big and cute. The epitome of a gentle giant.
Your doing great, don’t listen to the negative comments. Everyone has their own ideas of how to train (or in many cases), or not to train their animal. We have 3 beautiful Blue Great Danes and we have our good days and bad days. I applaud your patience when teaching new rules or tricks. I believe many of our own behavioral problems have stemmed from my frustration and inconsistencies.
honey and ur work with her is truly inspireing we are so blessed to have great danes in are world it would not be the same for me with out them……