How is your body language when you are getting him to come to you? Are you facing him full on, making eye contact? If you are, your body is telling him to run away. Try moving in the opposite direction when you call him. I found that to help tremendously! I get the dog's attention, turn so my side faces them, do a mock play bow while clapping my hands and then turn the direction I want them to go and begin to move that way. Works almost every time! It taps into your dogs' desire to play 'chase'. They pay far more attention to our body language than our voice as that's their primary form of communication. You can say 'come' till you are blue in the face and if your body says 'go, run away from me', they will run away.

So try matching your body language to your command and you may see a big difference!

Sally has been that way but with allot of practice and treats she is getting better at it!!!!

Originally Posted by Reba-doo

Sally has been that way but with allot of practice and treats she is getting better at it!!!!

Wow I've definitely been on Facebook too much. I was just about to 'like' that but realized that I couldn't.

Originally Posted by Trumansmom

How is your body language when you are getting him to come to you? Are you facing him full on, making eye contact? If you are, your body is telling him to run away. Try moving in the opposite direction when you call him. I found that to help tremendously! I get the dog's attention, turn so my side faces them, do a mock play bow while clapping my hands and then turn the direction I want them to go and begin to move that way. Works almost every time! It taps into your dogs' desire to play 'chase'. They pay far more attention to our body language than our voice as that's their primary form of communication. You can say 'come' till you are blue in the face and if your body says 'go, run away from me', they will run away.

So try matching your body language to your command and you may see a big difference!

And go back to the basics with onleash recall. Use a hand signal too.
Next time at the dog park don't let him offleash. Just walk around and then leave.
As mentioned above it's not a good idea to chase.
If the dog does start to run you might try a stop or sit command followed by stay.
Be firm. When I put the OBEY tone on my voice my dog Oogy wouldn't dare disobey.

You're right - once when harley got out I started saying "bye bye" and I started walking back home and he eventually followed me back in - it was so scary though!!!

For the past 2 weeks I've been conscientiously brining treats with me EVERYWHERE and treating him while he's doing good things like, sitting, being quiet, walking nice, etc... it's been working - calling him from random places in the house... he's not as treat motivated as other dogs so it's been really challenging...

Originally Posted by Trumansmom

How is your body language when you are getting him to come to you? Are you facing him full on, making eye contact? If you are, your body is telling him to run away. Try moving in the opposite direction when you call him. I found that to help tremendously! I get the dog's attention, turn so my side faces them, do a mock play bow while clapping my hands and then turn the direction I want them to go and begin to move that way. Works almost every time! It taps into your dogs' desire to play 'chase'. They pay far more attention to our body language than our voice as that's their primary form of communication. You can say 'come' till you are blue in the face and if your body says 'go, run away from me', they will run away.

So try matching your body language to your command and you may see a big difference!

Great tip - I will definitely try calling him as I turn my body in the opposite direction. While I've been practicing at home I've been calling him from another room to see if he comes. He has been doing pretty well - just takes practice I guess... :-)

as for the leash thing - I got a 30ft lead that i take him on now when we go for walks and i find that he doesn't usually go past about 10-15ft from me, he will walk ahead of me and then turn around to see where I am which is a good sign... will def keep practicing with that too!!