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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  Hi and Welcome! How awesome of you to make this little guy part of your family. It can take puppies a long time to get used to brushing and combing so that’s pretty normal. I have one that prefers to train with a toy. When he does his trick or whatever we are working on I will toss the ball and he goes and gets it and brings in back. |
Using a toy as a reward should definitely help with some things. The first “command” I’d like him to learn, though, is “Leave it,” and I haven’t figured out how to make that work with a toy reward. The threads I’ve found tell me to use a treat to teach him to drop a toy, but he prefers the toy, and he won’t drop it to get a treat. And the reverse doesn’t work either, because he’s already ignoring the treat, so he doesn’t need to “Leave it” to get the toy.