How to teach puppy her name

[HeidiCaccamise]

Hi Adrienne...Another question I have about Baylee is she doesn't seem to know her name.  It's been almost two weeks and she doesn't respond to her name at all, almost to the point I was wondering if she has a hearing problem.  

We say her name a lot, mostly when telling her no (Baylee no) as she is a feisty little girl.  I think I heard once you shouldn't say their name when reprimanding but not sure.  

Even if we are just calling her to come or to play she just ignores us...doesn't make any effort to acknowledge her name being called.  

My husband is getting concerned and I actually brought it up days ago as I felt she should be responding to her name, out tone of voice, something.

Any suggestions and thanks?

Heidi Caccamise

[Adrienne]

Hi Heidi.

Generally, we want to keep the name as positive as possible so we want to avoid pronouncing it followed by something negative such as a "no" or for something the dog doesn't like to do. Also, we want to avoid saying it too frequently other than when we want to call our dog to maintain it as salient as possible, so we can use to say: "Baylee come!" or when want her attention "Baylee, sit!" and always followed by something positive such as a praise/reward/ or something else positive such as a life reward such as going out in the yard to sniff, or anything else your dog loves doing.

If she isn't coming when called to play, it could be she isn't too eager to play in certain ways or may feel a bit overwhelmed/intimidated if there's too much action going on (kids screaming, running etc). 

It may help to therefore start attaching the name to her recall, using the methods explained here:

https://www.braintraining4dogs.com/members/brain-training/obedience-101/recall/

Or you can do an easy game such as saying her name and then tossing a treat. Rinse repeat several times. And then once you get her turning her head often in response, you can start attaching it to various commands followed by reinforcement. 

The dog's name should be music for the dog's ears, so always keep it fun and positive!