Dog Obedience Training Info

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Every dog we’ve ever had has run away, but now my mom wants another one. My dad doesn’t and they’ve really been at odds about this. I’m just worried that my dad won’t love the dog if it comes and my mom will only get angrier at him. Ordinarily, we all love dogs, but just can’t bear to have our hearts broken again. I don’t think getting a dog is a good idea. Is there any way I can reason with her. My mother is very bad on following through on commitments and lacks the patience to properly train a dog or take it to obedience school. Therefore the responsibility for feeding, exercising, disciplining, and picking up after the dog will likely fall on my dad, who already is very busy with work, since my mother won’t. She probably wants the dog because her children are all starting to grow up and leave her, but a dog is a 13-15 year commitment, and I don’t want to see anyone hurt, including my parents or an innocent dog.
My dad wanted the other dogs and my mom got sick of them. We think she gave at least one away secretly and told us it ran away

I have a Cocker Pug who’s about 10 months and he’s a huge brat. He is not allowed to eat on the couch although he tries often. And normally, when he gets up, we yell at him to get off and when he doesn’t, if we get up to pull him off, he starts running across the room jumping on all the couches and wagging his tale as if we were playing with him instead of being genuinely mad. He did it last night and my Dad was going to hit him and I screamed at him not to, but is there another way to teach him that no means no?

Any suggestions would be great. I want my parents to take him to obedience lessons but they refuse so I am just trying to do a bunch of reading and such in order to try and learn more so I can train him as best I can myself since my parents are content to let him run the house.
Cocker Pug = half cocker spaniel, half pug

He is already neutered as well, for the record.

He is not quite two years old, neutered, full blood Golden. He is the most hyper dog I have EVER seen. I have taken him to dog obedience school, read books, worked hours upon hours with him but he still rarely listens to me. When we go visit my parents, he will listen to my dad and obey him to an extent. I just don’t know what to do!! He frustrates me to no end! He is a good dog and very smart, just seems to constantly be on the move no matter how long I exercise him. Any thoughts??
Wow, thanks for the informative responses so far.

Ok so I asked about the question if my dog should be inside or outside and I got good answers. Thank you. But now I have a problem…

I asked my Dad if he would send my dog to obedience school. And he said "My kids, I’ll teach. My dog, I won’t."

Also.. even though I love my dog. I am sure he would be much happier with a loving family (instead of mine). Don’t get me wrong. I sneak my dog inside the house and outside to play with him. Sometimes I get caught. Anyways. I asked my dad "Well, can we give him away to a family that loves him and teaches him good mannars?" my dad replied….

"No, Me and My dog wanna be here." I know this is VERY untrue. My dog doesn’t wanna be locked up in the basement all day until he can go outside.

I wanna train my dog, thing is that I can’t train him inside…

Please help…

I thought about opening my own animal shelter but I don’t know how I’d do that and my dad said most animal shelters are headed and run by volunteers. Is this true? I also heard there’s a career called a cruelty investigator but I don’t know how you’d get into that either or how much it’d pay. I’d love to train guide dogs, but again I don’t know how good the pay would be.

I am aware of the other obedience training that will have to take place before leash-training this dog, such as teaching him to sit, stay, etc…and have mild experience in doing so with different breeds of dogs. However, I feel I have a unique situation because this dog is not kept in a home, was most likely left abandoned as a failed pit fighter, and it is hard to determine his temperament. The largest problem that I am facing is that if I let him out of his pen at the current moment he will be free and ready to kill numbers of chickens, cats, geese, etc roaming around the yard. There are larger fenced pastures that I could take him to to work in, but I am a 5′3" 105-pound 21 year old girl with unnoticable muscle mass and am worried to just get the dog out on a leash in the case that he might escape from my grasps immediately.
How should I go about this?
The dog is my dad’s and not my own…he has had pit bulls like this throughout his whole life including his family….OF COURSE it is not an appropriate way to treat this breed of dog or any–and I don’t feel he mistreats them but they are missing out on love and stimulation…the most rational answer to this would be to convince him to do things differently but I am not going to do that…would just like to get acquainted with this dog because I’m very interested in owning a pit bull of my own and treating it right!
Ah, and also the entire property is fenced in and dad keeps a very good eye on him when he’s out….the both of us are aware of the danger of a pit roaming too far and tearing something/someone up..
How he acts around me:
I just met him 3 days ago…I approached him in a calm, slow, friendly manner(like you would with almost any animal) to see how he would act around me and he slowly put his tail between his legs and still looked up at me with quiet questioning eyes..definately a little shy and scared..I went and got him some new bedding for his dog-box and both me and my brother went in the cage and he perked up immediately. He pranced around us to watch what was going on and he hopped up to prop himself up on my chest a couple of times. I’m normally not very receptive to dogs hopping on me but I let him do it so that he felt comfortable and I fondly pet his head while he was on me : )
He growled a little the next day when I was making a little noise outside of his pen to try and get him to come out but I feel that’s pretty natural for a dog when something bothers them and they can’t see it. He seems like a good dog to start with!
thank you smiling_impala for the great link to the forum