Help!!… Great Dane Training..?
I have a 13 week Great Dane mix.. She's 1/2 Great Dane and 1/2 Bull Mastiff...
She's a really sweet dog, but she just does not listen! She understands that we someone says "NO!" that she's not supposed to do that or go there, but sometimes she still does... I know that you're supposed to use positive reinforcement with danes, but sometimes it gets so annoying that I'll yell or tap her on the butt real lightly... but for the most part I just clap my hands real loudly..
Oh she also runs away sometimes when I try to bring her back...
PLEASE!! If you know how to help ANSWER!!
Thank You!! 
Thanks for all ya'lls help...
And yes I realize that Harleigh is still just a young pup.. I guess I just forget cause she's so big! haha..
If you have any other training tips that may help.. You are more than welcome to share them with me! 
Thanks again!
Either have a private trainer come in or book yourself and your pup into a puppy class. ‘No’ isn’t exactly a command, it doesn’t give the dog an alternative behaviour to carry out.
If you are going to say NO then give her something else to do immediately. A sit command will do. Any command she knows will do as long as you give her an alternative behaviour to offer you. ‘No’ just leaves her hanging.
As long as you praise her with enthusiasm, tell her ‘good girl’ and treat her for coming to you when you call her she will be happy to oblige. She will want to come to you when you call her because good things happen when she does.
You can treat intermittently when she gets the hang of it if you wish and eventually phase the treats out. I still treat my adult dogs for a great recall.
She is very young and this is a good time to teach her obedience commands.
Don’t yell and definitely no butt tapping. That plays no part in obedience training. You want your dog to cooperate with you,not to fear you.
I obedience train my Rottweilers with positive methods, they are obedience titled. I wouldn’t boast that I’m a great trainer but my dogs are well behaved, they obey all my commands without exception. They love to do what I ask them because they are praised and receive the attention they love.
I do say Ah Ah if they are doing something I don’t want them to do and I follow up with a command I want them to obey.
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Submissive follows will give their complete and undivided attention to their leader.
A dog that acts of her own free will and doesn’t come when called is a dominate dog. You must achieve leadership status before you can teach your dog anything.
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my dane (8 months old) was the same way and sometimes still is
he just doesn’t listen very well when you call him or say no, i’ve got it down to twice now, and the way i did was… if he didn’t come to me after the first time of saying his name, i went to him and got his collar and walked him over to where i was.
another thing to try with the "come" command. is start out, you on one side of the dog, someone else on the direct opposite side. take turns saying "name, come!" as soon as she turns to the person saying the command, plug a treat in her mouth, do it over and over and over and over… gradually start taking steps away from her, making her walk to you, and then walk to the other person, each time she does, plug in a treat, keep doing this every single day over and over, eventually, it will lead to you being in a nother room and saying the command, someone else saying it ina nother room, and plugging in treats, this shows her that she is doing good and gets rewarded for coming to you.
he’s pretty stubborn but i just used a lot of treats, a lot of persistance, and for the most part he’s shaped up very nicely. and, she’s only 13 weeks, we got ours at 11 weeks and he was the same way and honestly it took a lot of work until about oh… 6 months old before he really started to grasp a lot of things (like no peeing in the house lol)
to keep him out of places, and off of counters, we used things called Scat Mats, worked very well, now we don’t even have to turn it on, he just sees it and won’t cross it. things for like staying out of the bathroom were, telling him to back up, back up, back up, until his paws were on the carpet and then give him a treat, now he won’t go passed the thresh hold.
all i can say, is patience and be consistant. over and over and over, do the same thing and say the same thing when she does something you don’t want her to do.
for example, he would like to jump on the bed without being asked to come up, so, we guide his paws back to the floor and once they hit the floor say OFF, now if he gets up and shouldn’t be we say off, and he gets down, he’s not allowed on the bed or couch unless he is asked to come up, but it took a couple months to train him.
good luck, i know i probably didn’t help a whole bunch but, there’s some examples of some things we did/do with our dane.
When she does something she’s not supposed to or is not coming when called try to say, "AH AH" loud and firmly. This works with my dog, and even dogs who are not mine who play with my dog sometimes. It works better than NO because from what I read it is similar to what a mom dog would do to correct her pup.
I am not sure what the pup is doing, but if she begins chewing on something she shouldn’t immediately say, Ah Ah, and then put something she can chew on in her mouth. This will help her to learn what she can chew on.
At 13 weeks she’s still a BABY folks and you can’t expect one that young to really consistantly "get it." It’s the equivilant of a 9 month old human baby, short attention span and even shorter memory. Start her and you in obedience training as soon as you can Hon so as she’s getting older you both know exactly what you should be doing at what stage.
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