lol, well Paris is an enthusiastic dog in general, and everything gets done with a bit more-than-necessary happiness. LOL!
All of this is done with the clicker too, I have the clicker in my right hand the whole time through this video, and Paris KNOWS how to work the clicker!! lol! Clicker=GOOD STUFF in her mind and I've always encouraged her loony happy stuff too, cos it's so darn fun! lol. I figured I'd rather be trying to tone her down than bring her back up...
I don't know how to make training more fun for you guys, cos I don't know what makes Desmond 'tick'! I know Paris LOVES to play and be down-right
silly so we do lots of silly stuff too. Clicker training is so positive that there's no shutting down (unless it's too hard and they get confused, but that'd be the fault of the trainer, not the dog!) but when I do a wee session like those you can see I break off with bouncing happy silly stuff, even though I'm ALSO doing click/treat throughout it... Each of those clips were broken up with silly games, so she's not being super attentive for all that long really! If he looses interest at 2 mins, then only do 90 seconds of training! Seriously! Each of those clips in my video would probably be only about that, or less. Do a bit of free shaping or trick training so that it doesn't matter what the end result is and it's a bit more 'fun' than formal stuff. Keep it really short and sweet so he doesn't sour on it. Finish it on a good note and while he's still keen for more, don't try and force more out of him...
For the 'front' stuff where she's coming right up to me, I started by sitting on the edge of a dining chair, leaning back with my legs stretched waaay out in front of me, hands (with treats and clicker) resting on my belly. She got lured inbetween my legs to rest her head on my tummy, click, treat, toss a treat away. I only had to lure her in a couple of times before she was zipping herself inbetween my legs to stretch up my tummy and get her treat. It encouraged her coming in both straight (my legs stretched out prevented her doing anything BUT straight) and close (to reach my tummy). I then progressed to sitting up more, then leaning against a wall (so my legs could still be sticking out infront of me a bit) and on to what I did there where I'm standing up and she's coming in for her treat.
