For the past few months or so, i have been "teaching" barley calming signals. These are not put to an exact command, but to a cue, of me sitting on the floor infront of him, and just waiting and using calming signals myself to iniciate him to do them. He piucked it up very quickly, as when he done a signal that i wanted i clicked so he would try it again and again, then after a little while i would stop rewarding that signal and wait until he does another signal. So far he can turn his head left and right, slow blinking and sniff the floor, he ocassionaly yawns or licks his lips, but we are working on these as he does not do them naturally. I will try to get a video of us doing a session, it is fun for the both of us, as he has to keep guessing on what i want so will throw everything at me in hope of a click and treat. This started by me doing a few training sessions of just standing there with treats and getting him to "throw" diffrent tricks at me, so he was using his own brain to decide what tricks he wanted to do, and if he done the same trick twice in a row i would ignore it, so he had to do a different one
Re: Teaching barley calming signals Ha ha, I know what you mean ,if I pick the clicker up and treats and am slow giving a command poor Dex goes into an automatic performance of his repertoire in the hope of something tasty! I feel bad and give him a right good rub over and a BIG treat for his enthusiasm ;D
