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Of course not! Might even start with a drawing of a cheddar figurine wrapped in bacon, then make a 1:100 model and progress from there. It's all about small steps. I mean that a step in the process might take a couple of days (or more). It'll be worth it!
Update: Hope has done really well with the desensitization to everything with wheels. The other day one of the neighborhood kids was riding a motorized scooter up and down the road (what are her parents thinking?!?). A few weeks ago Hope would go crazy and bark her fool head off. Yesterday, she didn't even look over at the kid and her scooter. I'm not saying she's cured, or that I would trust her off leash and out of the fence around anything with wheels, but she has gotten soooo much better! And with the intense work we've put into this, she has started paying better attention to me with distractions. Thanks everyone for the advice!
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Update: Hope has done really well with the desensitization to everything with wheels. The other day one of the neighborhood kids was riding a motorized scooter up and down the road (what are her parents thinking?!?). A few weeks ago Hope would go crazy and bark her fool head off. Yesterday, she didn't even look over at the kid and her scooter. I'm not saying she's cured, or that I would trust her off leash and out of the fence around anything with wheels, but she has gotten soooo much better! And with the intense work we've put into this, she has started paying better attention to me with distractions. Thanks everyone for the advice!
Desensitizing work with a reactive dog is one of the most rewarding things I ever do.
It's slow work, yes. But the benefits are many: The whole process enhances the owner/dog bond; the basic ob and focus work that are done as part of the process is all good; and the results are deep-rooted.
Good for you, Holly. Keep it up!
One of my reactivity success stories is a dog of my own. My dog-aggro rescue who I worked on for many months for his reactivity to strange dogs makes me happy almost daily when we pass a fence-runner or a dog across the street giving mine the stink-eye. My dog just marches along. And in his own yard, when he sees an enemy dog start to pass "his" fence, it's now so simple and so fast to redirect him before he gets into focus mode. I am in danger of dislocating my arm, patting myself on the back.
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