Why Your Dog Listens at Home but Ignores You Outside

Dog Works Radio® | Dog Training, Puppy Training, Dog Behavior & Service Dogs · Aug 11, 2026 · 11m

Your dog sits perfectly in the kitchen, comes when called across the living room, and seems to know exactly what you are asking. Then you walk outside, and suddenly it feels like all that training disappeared.

In this episode of Dog Works Radio, Michele Forto explains why your dog probably has not forgotten their training and is not deliberately ignoring you. Instead, dogs often struggle to generalize behaviors from one environment to another. Add new smells, other dogs, wildlife, traffic, people, and dozens of other distractions, and a simple command can suddenly become much harder.

You will…