I will try both of your suggestions. I wish that I'd entered this for the contest, I guess i didn't think of it.
I really would love it if my guy could just "pretend" to be a normal dog ...
I don't want him staring at me like "begging". I've tried some of this .. he begins to offer his entire arsenal of behaviors if he thinks marker training is happening. Then i laugh and the session ends.
My "abnormal" dogs have been my greatest teachers.
It's good to keep working on moving forward. At the same time, remember and accept their limitations. It's part of who they are. They're stuck with us and our limitations and they accept those just fine.
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Ditto.
Also, I thought and spoke wrong on page one. I talked about marker training closeness.
But there's really a slightly different focus: If I want to desensitize the dog to being physically close to me without anxiety, I do upbeat marker training (which Pinker welcomes) for any commands .... from ob to tricks ... with very gradual decreases in the distance between us.
So, thinking out loud .... having the dog work on a mat that can very gradually be closer to you ....
Also, I thought and spoke wrong on page one. I talked about marker training closeness.
But there's really a slightly different focus: If I want to desensitize the dog to being physically close to me without anxiety, I do upbeat marker training (which Pinker welcomes) for any commands .... from ob to tricks ... with very gradual decreases in the distance between us.
So, thinking out loud .... having the dog work on a mat that can very gradually be closer to you ....
Still thinking.
I like that!
With the dog in drive, short duration and closing the distance on his "place" mat.
What others have said, you may not change the dog's basic nature, but I believe teaching the closeness can go a long way to making him comfortable.
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