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I'd be interested!
I need some kind of motivation to keep Cookie up with training. and she needs it bad, she's gotten to the point where I tell people she's has the least confidence of any dog I've ever known. because lately whenever we try to train, and I don't get so upset over anymore cause it happens so much, but she will be doing fine and then just sit there and stare at me until she's shaking all over and trying to walk away and hide. ??? I don't know what her deal is, but she's very timid of everything she does.
It also turns out that she's totally incapable of being independent. ??? like she does not function on her own. but I guess that's kind of typical of little dogs who grew up like an 'only child dog'.
so despite all that, sign me up =P
Elsie falls apart if she doesn't know what I'm asking her to do. For us, free-shaping really helped (although I have no idea how you'd do that without a clicker), and so did reviewing stuff she already knew and cleaning it up.
I think the closest thing I do to free shaping is like setting up stuff, like we already started things to do with a box game, but I stopped after the easy stuff like 'get in' 'get out' 'get on' 'get off' I started to try for 'jump over' even with some smaller things since a box is kind of big, but I haven't kept up since..
Also I'm defiantly going to do the latter, reviewing and cleaning up. I've just been bad lately, too 'blah' when i get home from work and not reviewing with her enough. Today she got stuck on 'speak' though, which, she's never liked that one. not sure why that one is so hard for some dogs, she knows it, but she won't let her bark out. like she seriously just bowed and her mouth opened and closed like she barked, but no sound came out. =|