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I have done a bit of clicker training - but she's a super smart girl, didn't take long at all to teach her the basics. we even taught her tricks when she was a baby (we say BANG BANG and she rolls over and gets a treat, the kids love that one)
I've had to stop saying things, cause she understands me now, at first i would say "who's taking Ginja out" or whatever, she figured out real fast what that meant, so I started saying "the dog" and she figured that out too, so now I say HOUND, and I can't say the word OUT without her getting all excited.
So talking to the family has become a little tricky, we can't say DOG or GINJA or OUT !
She knows our names as well, I can tell her "go get daddy" and she'll go look for my DH, I can do that with the kids as well... my DH loves to tell her "go get mommy" because she'll jump all over me!
I got Ginja for my son mostly, but she's become my dog more than anyone elses... I took a vacation last year feb and was gone for about 3 weeks, and she wouldn't let ANYONE in this house, she actuallly nipped at my FIL's heels, and scared a neighbor who came to visit, she was NOT happy while I was gone. The second I returned she calmed down totally - the inlaws were still here visiting, and she stopped barking at them every day etc...
Funny Girl!
Edit to add: We did have an issue when she growled at my kids if they came to close to her and her bone, but we fixed that pretty quick, we got the kids to walk close to her, she growled, and we (either dh or I) took the bone, flipped her over on her back, put a hand on her throat and "growled" at her. We only had to do that once or twice and she NEVER growled at them again. THe kids can now take her food away from her and she just looks at them!
My kids often give her leftovers or treats, and she'll sit nicely and wait till they tell her she can eat!
