Who's Training Who?

Ann

Ann

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Our thread about Sheltie quirks brought to mind my most recent attempt at discouraging wild barking by my five houligans at everything and anything that happens in the kitchen, from taking out an ice cube to filling the kettle and coffee pot, opening soda, replacing garbage bags, running any appliance...you get the picture.

I decided the time had come to get serious about some training, and try to pick off one behavior at a time. My plan was to give the QUIET command and when/if they comply, ply them with blueberries as a reward which happily they love and are wonderful for them. I started with filling the coffee pot with water. Day One: To my everlasting shock, it worked!! I had five quiet faces and got the pot filled and prepped. Cue the blueberry rewards. Hooray Me!

That lasted for several days, so I expanded to filling the kettle. Also successful. Ice cubes, not so much. Garbage bag, epic fail. But progress is progress, so I'll take it, I thought.

But in typical Sheltie fashion, although we now have perfect quiet for coffee making and kettle filling, once they have their blueberry reward the chorus ignites in force! WE WANT MORE BLUEBERRIES! Sigh. I've created a new monster. Shelties for the win; Mom.... :razz::razz::razz::razz::razz:
 
Teddy said I want to eat at your house, Training success or failure "Blueberries are expensive". Dad said they are more expensive than bananas which is my favorite and thoose are going for over 69 cents a pound on sale here. He has given me Blueberries before an I just made a mess,I found them to be hight squishable.
 
Ann said:
Our thread about Sheltie quirks brought to mind my most recent attempt at discouraging wild barking by my five houligans at everything and anything that happens in the kitchen, from taking out an ice cube to filling the kettle and coffee pot, opening soda, replacing garbage bags, running any appliance...you get the picture.

I decided the time had come to get serious about some training, and try to pick off one behavior at a time. My plan was to give the QUIET command and when/if they comply, ply them with blueberries as a reward which happily they love and are wonderful for them. I started with filling the coffee pot with water. Day One: To my everlasting shock, it worked!! I had five quiet faces and got the pot filled and prepped. Cue the blueberry rewards. Hooray Me!

That lasted for several days, so I expanded to filling the kettle. Also successful. Ice cubes, not so much. Garbage bag, epic fail. But progress is progress, so I'll take it, I thought.

But in typical Sheltie fashion, although we now have perfect quiet for coffee making and kettle filling, once they have their blueberry reward the chorus ignites in force! WE WANT MORE BLUEBERRIES! Sigh. I've created a new monster. Shelties for the win; Mom.... :razz::razz::razz::razz::razz:
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:yuckyuck I always make mine sit if I know they'll bark at random noises and kitchen stuff, then if they're quiet they get cheerios. It works pretty well but I only have two! And blueberries every a.m. !
 
That’s just too funny!:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
After reading this I thought I’ll try this with Blueberry because I need to run the dishwasher! Got out the puck and the barking started…showed her cookie and suddenly Finnie appeared…he doesn’t bark at it lol. Pushed him away and tried to get Blueberry’s attention but she wouldn’t pay attention :lol:…ah to heck with it and closed the dishwasher and go it running lol.
 
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