How does he respond outside of any training to praise and attention? For example, if you are sitting on the couch and he's in the room, if you make eye contact, smile and quietly tell him he's the best dog ever?
How does he interact with other people if you aren't present?
Just trying to get more ideas to think outside the box.
How does he interact with other people if you aren't present?
Just trying to get more ideas to think outside the box.
Thank you for the feedback! He is really, really weird.
You don't need another person. Just set the camera on the floor or a book or furniture and turn it on. Use the backyard if your house is too small.
You're making this way too hard and making it too much like "training." If he approaches the training stick and interacts with it, throw a cookie on the floor by the stick and THAT IS IT. He doesn't need to continue interacting with it after that. Put it away. Exercise finished.
So don't. That's not how training works anyway. You don't say a cue while a dog is doing a behavior, you say it before the behavior. That's why it's a "cue." And if everything you say is true, that you talk to him all the time and he's totally fine with that happening while he offers behaviors until you say it WHILE he does the behavior - you should have no problems.
The bolded is what's stressful.
I'm confused. Which is it? Is moving scary - and agility jumps are scary like you previously said - or will he happily chase the ball over the jump?
If he plays with TOYS happily and the problem is when you try to stuff food in his face, you're looking at a potential solution right there.
He will only chase the ball for a few throws, after which he ignores it. He will ignore the ball if there is anyone on the street, if the other dogs are making noise in the house, if I praise him too enthusiastically for getting the ball, or if it makes a sound when it hits the ground. He is less reliably interested in the ball than he is in food.