Currently, Lobo knows the meaning of 'sit', but I have slight problem teaching him the meaning of stay. Sometime he stays, sometime, he doesn't. I use clicker too... it helps a bit but sometime he seems too restless to get treat! lol Also, I understand the importance of playing with your puppy as much as possible. I do try to 'wear him out' as much as possible... but I read that 2 (or 3?) of books states that you CANNOT play tug of war with them... but doesn't say why... Does anyone here play tug of war with no problem? And why can't we play tug of wars with them? This somewhat hinders my 'choices' to play with Lobo, I do enjoy playing with him... I just feel restricted.

Oh, yeah... and there's time where I catch Lobo suddenly have black pupil widen and panting... I am assuming this is 'dominance mode'... how do I snap him out of it? While I went out for a walk, we ran into this extremely playful and friendly (submissive) dog and Lobo snapped at him. He's only 2 months old and already snapping at older dogs! Am I babying him too much?

all I can say is that I have worked a lot with Gracie on staying but I always use hand cues along with the words it just takes time.... I put a treat on the floor an put my hand up like "stop"  while saying stay.... then when i want her to move i point and say ok

There may be more to it from an agression point-of-view, but I seem to recall reading that playing tug of war teaches the dog not to let go of something when you're trying to take it away from them.  

 

blackbird668 wrote: There may be more to it from an agression point-of-view, but I seem to recall reading that playing tug of war teaches the dog not to let go of something when you're trying to take it away from them.

Hmmmm, I play tug-o-war with the pups all the time, they both know the difference between a playfull "do woo want to play" while I slowly wag the rope in front of them, and a stern "leave it" applied to inappropriate behavior. In other words, I would never "try" to take something I didn't want them to have away from them.

Now as far as training to stay...Honestly when people tell me I have a well trained husky I just smile because RA is not really trained at all, he is well mannered. Really aside from sit and down I've never really succeeded in training him to do much. That's not to say he's a dummy- RA will come when called even off leash from across a field...everytime-anyway, that;s just my little rant, sorry:)

I guess what mean is don't get too wrapped up in conventional 'training' of your husky. Husky's are different You will go farther developing a mutually respectful relationship.

I see. I only wanted to train him in order to understand that he would get what he wants as long as he works for it. I do the same for walking... When I first walked him, he wouldn't stay on my side, and continuing smells something on ground... and now after giving him few treats when he walks on my side for about 5 feet... then 10... then now about 20 feet... he does improve drastically. Only problem I have with walking him is that he stops and try to run away when he hears dog barking. 

The training manuals seem to contradict each other in my opion and resulted in me not letting Polee of the leash until about a year ago.  Most experts say that you should never let a husky of the leash due to their poor recall and stubborness.

 

However with just a little bit of recall training Polee spends most of the time off the leash and is a lot happier when meeting other dogs.

 

When training you need to be consistent, persistent, and remain calm and relaxed and the training possibilities are almost endless.  Huskies are very intelligent  but are also strong willed which makes them a challengs to train but the rewards are endless.

 

I would suggest taking Lobo to puppy classes so that he can socialise with other dogs as this should help with his aggression issues

Puppy classes sounds like a good idea... however I don't have money to spare for that. To make story short, I got fired right before picking up the puppy so I was lucky that I have money all set as well as lot of supplies already at home for puppy. 

ok not sure about anyone else but i would be concerned about walking him in the street at such a young age.. is he fully vaccinated?? i didnt walk Sable till she was about 4 to 5 months and thats because even though they are fully vaccine they can still pic something up because of there immune system being weak.. Some bad Diseases take about a year to leave an area and thats with treating the area throughout the year and some dogs can just be a carrier and and have a immunity to it and just might pass it on to lobo.. when i walked her i didnt use treats i just allowed her to take time to sniff around as a reward... As for "Tug of War" we play tug a war with her all the time weather she initiated it or not we taught her when we say "let go" to let it go and if by accident she happens to bite us while playing we scream ouch and she automatically drops it and backs away until we tell her its ok to play again..