"How to' train your dog to be calm around people with toys.

http://www.pamsdogacademy.com

This is a video on how to build calmness around toys. My last video on this was just with the toys on the ground. Now by adding a person that has the toy it makes it more challenging for Bandit. Eventually I would like him to be this calm around kids throwing a baseball, football or playing soccer at the park. I would also like Bandit to be this calm when he sees another dog playing with a toy at the park. Bandit can be pretty calm around our other dog Isabelle when she plays, but that will be a good place to start.

I hope that this will help many of you train your dogs to be calm.

By being calm around the toy, does not mean they will never get to play with at toy. It just means that that toy being played with is off limits to the dog, unless the dog is released to go to the toy. However, it is so important to build a solid behavior of calmness first!

I am sure that one day, I will get a good clip of Bandit and how he does behave when people are playing at the park or when a dog is playing ball. I know that he is frustrated and just wants to go join in on the fun, but I am hoping by creating a default behavior of checking in with me and being calm around toys that when faced with a difficult situation, he will be able to recover quickly or hopefully not react at all.

Thanks for watching my videos!

Have a wonderful rest of the weekend.

P.S. Sorry that the video is so long. I try to keep them under 5 minutes.

Pam, Isabelle, & Bandit

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Clicker
• Training
• dog
• calmness
• calming
• signals
• desensitizing
• counter
• conditioning
• operant
• building

[AgilityFox]

Pam, can you explain exactly why you are clicking calming signals ?

It seems by doing that you would be clicking while he is stressed, isn't that a negative association ? I don't understand...

[pamelamarxsen]

@AgilityFox Dogs use calming signal to calm themselves down to calm others down. They are not just signs of stress. It also helps to look at the dogs entire body language and not just the calming signals, is the dogs body relaxed or tense. etc... By marking with the clicker his attempts to calm down will help him associate toys and me with calmness & it will eventually change his emotional response.

[pamelamarxsen]

@AgilityFox Prior to this I worked on reinforcing calming signals without toys to get increments of calmer behavior. I would never take it to the next level of adding triggers or distractions unless, I knew for sure 100% that my dogs was ready for it. I believe in setting up the training situation to keep the dog successful. I hope that helps.

[AgilityFox]

@pamelamarxsen Thank you SO much Pamela, it's much clearer now for me !

[pamelamarxsen]

@AgilityFox You are welcome!

[musicofnote1]

Sigh - I wonder why I'm going to pay all that money to CASI, when I could just as well send it to you to become a trainer. Oh, now I remember - I'm not a fan of the San Diego sun and heat. Oh well, let me know when you move over here ... another great job, Pamela!

[pamelamarxsen]

Thanks! You are so nice! I unfortunately do not have all the answers as I am always learning and trying new things to see what works as each dog seems to respond differently. I have one that I need to calm down and one that I need to pep up. :) Trust me, I would love to move there as it seems so amazing! Thank you for such a nice comment! Pam & My Pups!

[hasiongirl01]

how do you click

[ffagffah]

ahhh why are you yelling?

[haylz27]

@pamelamarxsen Thanks Pam, I just might try that! :-)

[cgazmommyof3]

Great video Pam, Bandit did so good! :)