Josie's Dad

I've trained Josie to the command, "Josie Look!" and no matter what she's doing, she runs to me and looks for a treat. I taught her it really, young, so whenever I say that, she comes running.

We can be at the dog park, with 20 other dogs, and I can yell "Josie Look" and she scampers right to me.

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When Josie comes home...it's so good!

Lightning&Stomps

My neighbors' dog comes running whenever they yell "ride!" Once she went after a skunk, and to get her to leave it alone my neighbor yelled "ride!" and opened the car door. Maggie, freshly sprayed by the skunk, happily jumped into the car and refused to get out until she'd been taken on her ride. It took a while to get the skunk smell out of the car, but it worked. (We live in a rabid skunk hotbed, but luckily this one was not rabid.)

BAXTER2

I have 3 dogs, a Lab mix, a Schnoodle, and Baxter, the Basset Hound. Baxter is 4 and although he may not run home immediately like the other two when I call and clap my hands, he does come - eventually. I had someone painting the inside of my home a while back and Baxter refused to stop barking the entire time he was there (I was at work). So, he put him out in the yard, which is fenced in. When I got home, there was Baxter on the deck. I called the painter, who lives next door, and asked what Baxter was doing outside. He told me that he refused to come in! He tried for half an hour but he wouldn't come in. The other two dogs are not like that. I believe that Baxter is just extremely stuborn. Love him to pieces tough.
Judy

SophieB

Carlton is probably bored! Why don't you get him a Basset friend for company and playing with?

You need to be a very patient person to own Basset Hounds and they're better living with a Basset friend or two!

Cassidy

Mikey T always has good advice. I didn't read through the whole thing, but I recommend a bit of training. They have some great programs available for adult dogs. We're having a lot of luck with Fergus (though "Stay" is a hard one). For the attention barking, we've had some good success with distraction through training. When he starts going crazy, I get his treats and we start doing "doggy pushups" Stand (Dog Training For Obedience - The Stand Command), Lay Down (The Down Command Of Dog Obedience Training | Teach Your Puppy Down Step by Step), Stand Lay Down Treat and repeat. I don't know if Carlton will do these but Stand is pretty easy (unless he's lazy like Fergus and will only sit until I really motivate him) and lay down is not too bad if you practice.

This obviously wouldn't have worked as he bolted out the door this morning, but perhaps it will help with attention barking. Good luck with "come" it's a hard one.

lvnMattie

When Mattie was little and a ball of engery and would not listen at all.. and she would not come to us or snuck out and we had to chase her.. all we would have to do to get her to come to us is sit down in the grass or lay down in the grass and she would charge us.. she wanted to play and wrestle. Worked everytime with Mattie.

bubbad

Amazingly enough when Vinny and Ese have gotten out of the yard as soon as they see me or hear me call they turn and come back, I must be doing something right.lol

Emma and Doris

You can get a basset to do anything for the proper treat,
I'm sure you can get Emma to jump from 50 feet and down
in a bucket of water...
That's really not my point; If you're patient and have a lot of
treats, you can learn them to stop and come back. If you succeed
in that, you should be very satisfied.
If you want cadaver discipline, I can easily name 50 breeds which
is more suitable.

Steinar, Emma and Doris

libertee

I have 2 bassets, Molly 1yr and Jaxson 10 months! And Molly is our runner, she is an escape artist and takes every opportunity to do so. She will pull out of her collar and dash around the house, but Jaxson could careless if it was snowing oats. I am gla to learn that this is normal behavior i was a bit concerned.

Vik12

All this help from you guys and the OP never replied or said thank you. Well, just know it is not going to waste as I will be reviewing everythin to help train my basset from things like door dashing and attention seeking. She can sit shake paw and stay....only if there iare treats She is really spoiled though.

I sometimes come in to my room and find Daisy sleeping on my pillow, I have even changed my sheets while she is sleeping on my bed without waking her up. Bahahah