How would you handle this?
Mia reacts (and Summer reacts to her) to the noise of ANYTHING closing. It started out as just a reaction to my computer closing (which she realized meant something fun might happen).
She runs and barks and screams and grabs toys and throws them at me if I close anything- computer, makeup compact, dvd case, gameboy, etc. It's gotten a lot worse very recently but she has a tendency to get into behaviors like this and they just build and build on themselves. Summer runs and barks because Mia is excited.
So... what do you do to desensitize her to the 'snap shut' kind of noise? DO I actually sit her in a training session and open and close things and reward for calm. I've opened and closed things to try to lessen the reaction and even after 8 or so times she still reacts to any closing object sound. I've also tried opening and closing things then having nothing exciting happen but it doesn't seem to help.
Mia reacts (and Summer reacts to her) to the noise of ANYTHING closing. It started out as just a reaction to my computer closing (which she realized meant something fun might happen).
She runs and barks and screams and grabs toys and throws them at me if I close anything- computer, makeup compact, dvd case, gameboy, etc. It's gotten a lot worse very recently but she has a tendency to get into behaviors like this and they just build and build on themselves. Summer runs and barks because Mia is excited.
So... what do you do to desensitize her to the 'snap shut' kind of noise? DO I actually sit her in a training session and open and close things and reward for calm. I've opened and closed things to try to lessen the reaction and even after 8 or so times she still reacts to any closing object sound. I've also tried opening and closing things then having nothing exciting happen but it doesn't seem to help.