by bmat » Sep 19th, '11, 17:46
Thanks, she is not really into tricks, nor was that the goal. The goal was that she has to 'earn' her treats. She always takes treats very gently so much so that once somebody has given her a treat they want to give her more because it really is weird how gently she takes them.
However one day my wife accidently dropped a treat and when my wife went to pick it up she nipped at my wife. Sequoia is very possesive and at the point it hit the floor she deemed it hers. Too teach her that they are not hers until we say so we started making her work for them because she attracts a lot of attention wherever she goes and we didn't want an incident.
She is very smart, very stubborn and very strong and while we love her to death she is sometimes hard to trust. Now she knows nothing is hers until we tell her it is hers, (although every now and again...).