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ok i get the picture…the thing is you are setting him to fail ….a greet is a greet a sit is a sit a no lunge is a no lunge…each is an individual behaviour….and each needed to be got on cue fluent and reliable without hesitation anywhere anytime anyplace…so you have had extinction over extinction for 3 years and you have been re-enforcing the behaviiours that he displays….for example…you got him on a leash in his house….so you deny the flight…you put him in a liedown but then you get on the floor in order to get some control….
you have also got trapped immaturity due to the early castrate and…..also very importantly he has some back end discomfort due to previous health problems and now arthritis…he doesnt know it the arthritis that is causing him pain/discomfort….as he sets into a lunge then he may be/have done already…associated that pain with ‘human’…..this is a classical conditioning ‘move on’….
in the stickies you will see a thread general levels of criteria…have a read of that and then come back and tell me what behaviours you have at each criteria…as in sit criteria 1 fluent and reliable….recall criteria 5 reliable 1 time out of 5 etc…ok with me?
you are going to have to go back to basics i think…you will need to remodify the learnt and mistaught stuff and then correct the cues to fluency….and he needs to learn his manners before he really hurts himself or someone….
what did you actually do in the training classes and what sort of training was it…how was the recall taught for example…right through start to finish…..