This is the first in a series of videos about how to build the positive association of human hands approaching and touching your dog or puppy. It can be quite daunting when puppies are first being socialised and even for shy or insecure older dogs. By using this method, you will be conditioning (or counter conditioning older dogs) your puppy to love human hands approaching them.
This is another video for the positive handling series. It goes through the method to teach your dog to enjoy being picked up. Smaller dogs will face this challenge more often than bigger dogs as people pick up smaller dogs more often. However, at some point in every dog’s life they will be picked up and this is something every dog should be taught to enjoy.