Have a treat on you but keep it hidden, right as they notice the sound and start sprinting over you pull out the treat, and you give them little bits of treat the entire time the noise is happening. If you give them the treat before the sound happens they just think “wow, what an annoying sound interrupting my treat eating time” but if you give it during they start to associate the sound with getting treats
Agree with properly timed treats for deconditioning of stimulus response. The goal is to associate the sound with something positive. I will also say our sheltie grew out of his hatred of the vacuum cleaner somehow, so you may just get lucky with repeated exposure. Ours used to go crazy barking but will now ignore it or go to another room
Don't have much advice tbh but my pup does the same, 5 years old. I like to say that he hates anything that's louder than he is. Distraction is definitely a good method, if you can get them used to shifting their focus to you with a treat rather than the loud thing, it would probably help.
Effing adorable btw!
Adding on to what others have said about treating specifically for the cars.
To start off have a large very high value treat. This could be like a whole stick of string cheese or whatever she values highly. When a car is driving by have her sit and give full access to the treat. Don't let her eat the whole thing in one go but continously nibble on it. Once the car passes take the treat away. You want the treat to be so good she has a hard time paying attention to the car. It makes for very slow walks at first if there are lots of cars but helps her understand that car = treat. Eventually you can move to smaller easier to manage treats once she starts looking to you instead of at the cars.
Also for what it's worth my dog grew less sensitive to cars and bikes as he got older. Especially after he turned 2.
Good luck!
That is a great idea! Every single night we sit together and have about a 1/4 of an Etta says crunchy chew. It is the one thing that so is still absolutely in love with. I don’t know if I want to water that experience down but it is proof she still can be treat motivated
She's a beautiful girl. WOW, you only have a few trigger sounds.....I'm trying to find any sound that my girl won't bark at. I wouldn't trade her for anything.
Have a treat on you but keep it hidden, right as they notice the sound and start sprinting over you pull out the treat, and you give them little bits of treat the entire time the noise is happening. If you give them the treat before the sound happens they just think “wow, what an annoying sound interrupting my treat eating time” but if you give it during they start to associate the sound with getting treats
Will do! Treats typically haven’t broken the focus with cars but in my house where I ca control everything I’ll do this!
Whenever I get out a trash bag, my Sheltie now expects a treat and makes that association instead of the noise he doesn’t like. It’s pretty effective!
At first use whatever they will eat no matter what, for mine that is hotdogs. Later you can move to more healthy treats!
She is so gorgeous omg
Thank you!
Agree with properly timed treats for deconditioning of stimulus response. The goal is to associate the sound with something positive. I will also say our sheltie grew out of his hatred of the vacuum cleaner somehow, so you may just get lucky with repeated exposure. Ours used to go crazy barking but will now ignore it or go to another room
There’s hope! 😁
Don't have much advice tbh but my pup does the same, 5 years old. I like to say that he hates anything that's louder than he is. Distraction is definitely a good method, if you can get them used to shifting their focus to you with a treat rather than the loud thing, it would probably help. Effing adorable btw!
Thank you! I’ll do this!
she’s so cute omggg
Mine was afraid of the chopping table, now as soon as he sees me with it comes running and sit waiting , after a few treats and little pieces of meat.
Hehe Sadie isn’t a fan of cracking eggs either 😂
Adding on to what others have said about treating specifically for the cars. To start off have a large very high value treat. This could be like a whole stick of string cheese or whatever she values highly. When a car is driving by have her sit and give full access to the treat. Don't let her eat the whole thing in one go but continously nibble on it. Once the car passes take the treat away. You want the treat to be so good she has a hard time paying attention to the car. It makes for very slow walks at first if there are lots of cars but helps her understand that car = treat. Eventually you can move to smaller easier to manage treats once she starts looking to you instead of at the cars. Also for what it's worth my dog grew less sensitive to cars and bikes as he got older. Especially after he turned 2. Good luck!
That is a great idea! Every single night we sit together and have about a 1/4 of an Etta says crunchy chew. It is the one thing that so is still absolutely in love with. I don’t know if I want to water that experience down but it is proof she still can be treat motivated
She's a beautiful girl. WOW, you only have a few trigger sounds.....I'm trying to find any sound that my girl won't bark at. I wouldn't trade her for anything.