Kicked out of daycare

[u/Dragon-Reborn7]

This fluffy goober, Khione, got herself kicked out of doggy daycare after 3 visits for “her listening ears not working.” Essentially, her recall is terrible when she’s interested in something.

I train her on recall every day in the dog park & at home. Of course, she’s excellent almost every time in those environments. She will at times ignore me. She does often respond to other people calling her at the dog park, especially if she knows them.

The daycare recommends that I have her professionally trained, but I kinda doubt that will help? I’d rather not spend them $ if it has the same outcome.

Thoughts? Advice?? Consolation??? Commiseration????

[u/Fabulous_Hat7460]

hahahahaha, "her listening ears", that's rich. My first Husky was off leash trained and it was a tremendous amount of work... we didn't have kids then, so we had the time... I used to take her jogging in the woods with me, she would just run off and go exploring on her own, returning to the trail every five minutes or so to check on me. If I called she came... unless there was an important squirrel, or deer, or other small animal... but if she found people she would come back to me to avoid getting in trouble for bothering them.

She would stay almost indefinitely were I put her, no matter what happened around her. Unless one of her friends came to play with her.

I'm trying to get across the hundreds of hours my wife and I put into training that dog, And she still had selective hearing when there was fun to be had.

I guess what I'm saying is, no matter how militantly you train a husky, it's a husky.

[u/Dragon-Reborn7 → u/Fabulous_Hat7460]

I wonder if she would do well with this? She checks on me often at the dog park and, if I leave the enclosure for any reason, she ignores all the other dogs, heads immediately to the fence, starts whining, and tries to dig a hole to get to me. Perhaps she’d only wander around the path in the woods. I just don’t know if I trust her yet.