[yorkietalkjilly]

I don't think she is playing a game. I think she's got some trust issues with you and your hands and with your picking her up, approaching her. I've dealt with dogs with this problem before & they react wonderfully and stop all of that "game" once they are dealt with for a while as I outlined. They want interaction and a relationship, they just don't like something about the way it is currently happening. When I've backed off, distanced, sidled, deferred and treatdropped, these dogs will start to come around every time, stop moving away as I reach for them and no need to bark for me to get them - and then run off, bark, I reach, run off, bark, etc. They just stop all that and let me get them any and every time. What I suggested just lets them see me in a different way for a while and then the trust issues, "game" playing and running away stop. Several rescues I've worked with had this issue from their formers lives and distancing, etc, helped them deal with my approaches and learn to accept hands and approaching with no "games". It showed me they had concerns at first and then came to trust me completely once I gave them a different approach for a while and let them start to approach me with little or no response until they had developed more trust in my hands, reaching, etc. But whatever method you find that works for you and your dog and stops her running away from you when approached is what you should use.