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We rescued an intact 2-3 year old female Gordon Setter. I don't know many of the details of how she was kept, but when we got her a month ago, she didn't know how to be a dog. My understanding is her life was pretty miserable. We had to teach her basic commands like 'here' and 'sit' - we were...

All resources I have read teach that you should only train your dog one command at a time. Does this mean that desensitizing the dog to feel better in certain situations and training him are mutually exclusive? Or can I train my new dog to sit and desensitize him to washing his paws or being...