What to do to get your dog to come when they escape?
Hi my little turd decided to escape when my mum was getting the mail we haven’t really done much training with the gate as I don’t have a long lead and when I use he’s normal lead he freak’s out because he thinks we’re going for a walk he was trained to sit and wait when letting the car in and when we went out and stuff but as the neighbours complain about barking when we’re gone and he doesn’t really feel safe outside by himself anyway we have just put him inside when we go I think this has caused he to just kinda forget whatever training we’ve used with the gate and now he still kinda sits and waits but tries to escape now I do have plains to re train him but I’m just to busy. Anyway so he escaped I was stupid didn’t put shoes on he luckily didn’t try and chase cars and any of the animals (we live kinda secluded in Australia so lots of chickens and cows) I was actually very shocked he didn’t bark or chase anything because when he was a pup he slipped out of he’s collar a lot and chased the neighbours cattle we have gotten him a bit socialised with different animals (due to being homeless and having to live with other people but now we are in a rental) so luckily he basically just sniffed things and I was chasing him(walking fast) and he was just sniffing and walking away he did try and see if one of he’s dog friends where in there yard that he has met once but they weren’t so I got him to a trail area and there wasn’t much around so I tried sitting as he normally really likes when we sit on the floor and comes to us in the yard when we do and he came straight away so I put he’s lead on and gave him a treat for coming and my feet started hurting and turns out when I got home I have a ton of blisters so I’m probably gonna stay in bed at least till tomorrow but my question is what’s the best way to get your dog back when they escape? I feel like you should discipline because they didn’t come straight away and ran from you but also that’s why they run because there scared their going to get in trouble but if you reward then your rewarding bad behaviour because they didn’t come straight away. And also I have recently started doing re call training with him in the yard this week he is picking up really quick I’ve started hiding treats so there’s a distraction otherwise he’ll just follow me and then I call him and he comes in 1 or 2 tries and he comes in faster at night when I call to. When he escaped I could tell he was actually was debating coming to me especially when he first escaped he was walking towards the cows and I called him and he automatically turned around and started walking my way but then he just kept walking and didn’t come to me. So what should I do next time if he escapes?
Oh also he’s a 3 year old German shepherdX Belgian