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Thank you for the feedback about Brenda, I do appreciate it. I love her book on doggie body language so much that I am going to stick with her approach for now, but I will definitely keep what you said in mind.

I feel like all of us must have seen different eppy's of Cesar because the reactions differ so much. I believe I've seen Cesar use flooding all the time - in half the episodes I've watched, I saw him alpha roll a dog that was going through parxysms of fear/rage and say that he WANTED the dog to struggle as much as possible before they gave up. It was almost like watching an exorcism.

I do believe in "catch the animal doing something right" and that's how I've managed to teach most of what Thor knows. OTOH, I decided to try the clicker again today. I broke it out and "charged" it with thirty+ clicks and treats. Thor was better than he was six months ago, by which I mean that he did not head for the hills on the click, but sat ten feet away from me and shook every time he heard the click. I guess I will be sticking with "good boy" for now.