[nagdu] Teaching a dog to shake itself off when wet.

[Tami Jarvis]

Daryl,

I did that with Mitzi, too, and encouraged her to shake before going in 
if we were under a marquis or something by praising her when she did it 
naturally. Good shake outside! /lol/ I adore the technique of 
praising/rewarding/naming things when the dog does them naturally, then 
shaping it into a command behavior. /smile/

Tami

On 02/23/2015 08:38 AM, Daryl Marie via nagdu wrote:
> Deanna,
> What I did with Jenny is to tell her "Good shake off!" whenever she shook herself off when wet.  She's a bit of a princess and will shake herself off whenever she gets even a little bit wet.  But this actually let me train her to shake herself off.  If we've been out in snow/rain and get into a building, I will ask her "Do you need to shake yourself off?" and she will if she needs to.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Daryl
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Deanna Lewis via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users (nagdu at nfbnet.org) <nagdu at nfbnet.org> Sent: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 09:28:06 -0700 (MST) Subject: [nagdu] Teaching a dog to shake itself off when wet.  Hi all, Does anyone have any tips on how to teach a dog to shake itself off when it is wet? This would be very beneficial when the dog is sopping wet and you are going into the house, or onto a bus... My dog will generally shake himself off when I take off his harness, but not always. Thank you! Deanna and Pascal (who retires in less than 4 weeks) -- This email was Virus checked by UTM 9. http://www.sophos.com Sent from the Clovernook email system _______________________________________________ nagdu mailing list nagdu at nfbnet.org http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nagdu_nfbnet.org To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nagdu: http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nagdu_nf
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