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Munchkin Talk
One of the things you learn about positive dog training techniques is to praise your Cairn repeatedly when they do something you approve. For some reason this concept didn't work with Molly at all.
Clicker training with Freeze Dried Treats worked the best with Molly. But Happy Jack responded very well with praise and in fact, I took it a little further. Instead of simple praise, I used what I call Munchkin talk. If you are a Wizard of Oz fan, than you know the Munchkin character.
I created my own Munchkin dialect which Happy Jack responded to very well. It's rather sickening to humans {wink} but it worked and he was trained in no time.
To this day I still talk Munchkin to him when he does something exceptionally well and I sometimes sing Munchkin tunes from the Wizard of Oz song track to my Cairn Terriers. It gets them all excited and they run around, growl, and jump. I'm not sure whether that means they like my singing or they want me to stop. ;)
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We have a two year old Cairn, Heidi. I bought her from a back yard breeder thinking that she was 8 weeks old, when she was only 5. She is very vocal and very bossy. The first year establishing pecking order was very frustrating. Now, she sometimes growls when she is in her bed at night, even at my husband or me. She always growls at the vet. And, she can be very bossy with our 9 1/2 yr. old son. So, we started having him feed and care for her and putting her directly in her crate when she growls. We love her silly funny times, but wonder if we are doing the right thing to stop the bossiness. We don't want a very grumpy older Cairn. Any suggestions?
Posted by: Cinda | February 12, 2008 01:20 PM
