How to help your dog to not react to triggers like other dogs, running and screaming kids and anything else that triggers reactivity. Your first public sessions should be brief. Pay attention to whether your dog becomes agitated after a certain period of time. For example, if you normally take a twenty-minute walk but have noticed that your dog usually becomes agitated after fifteen minutes or so, cut it down to ten and build up from there. Here are a couple of scenarios you can use. You are walking along with your dog. A woman with a dog is walking toward you, on the same side of the street. You know this approach and proximity will be too much for your dog. As your dog spots the pair, you feed a few treats in rapid succession, then stop treating as you give the walk-away cue and walk with your dog calmly across the street. You are sitting on a park bench. A person walking a dog is leaving the park. They are at a distance at which your dog is comfortable. As soon as your dog spots them, you start feeding treats. The pair disappears into a nearby car. The treats stop. Treating your dog at the sight of a trigger helps to change his association to the trigger. If your dog totally refuse to take treats - you are too close to the trigger. Remove your dog from the situation (you dont want practicing bad behaviors) and next time try with a greater distance.
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 11:36:05 +0000
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