Dandy getting tricky...

Dandy knows a a couple of tricks of which one is high five! This is a fun and easy trick and he's pretty good at it.  When teaching Dandy tricks, we make sure the training sessions are fun, short and focused on one easy skill at a time for him to master. Also as with everything else Dandy related, we move at his pace.  When he shows us with his body language that he's done, then we are done.  Our goal is to have fun, build confidence and connection!
You will see that with the tricks we do with Dandy we also try to find a way to incorporate a hand movement/gesture that causes him a lot of worry/anxiety. With high five we use an open hand, sometimes open hand with fingers pointed down other times with fingers pointed up.  This has helped to desensitize him around a human coming towards him with what could be perceived as an open handed slap.  This was a slow process and we built up to the open hand with trust, patience and treats.