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Learn to massage your dog, and teach them to relax on command. Imagine the potential! IF your dog knows how to relax, learning becomes much, much easier and the pup can learn to focus on you during stressful moments in the chaotic real world:
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In "Bridge and Target" training, the third thing the animals are taught to do is to relax on cue, a key step in preparing them for changing their attitudes about things. In order to teach the animal to relax on cue, the trainer says "easy," "x," or any other cue word while massaging the animal's muscle groups. After a short time, simply hearing the word cue helps the trainee relax. The phrases counter-conditioning, desensitization, acclimation, habituation and perception modification refer to various aspects of the same process. "Perception modification" (Cover, 1994) is the description of the process by which we can change the way an animal looks at a given event. For examples, in less than 20 minutes trainers can significantly calm frightened or aggressive animals. We can teach individuals to enjoy bath time, clipping, or spraying, and even to relax on cue. This process can be so low-keyed that the subject is oftentimes unaware of the challenge being redefined.
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