@gbroxon:
Magnum started snarking at my husband moving him from his sleeping place (on our bed) a few months after we got him (he was over a year old, at the time). Before that, my husband just scooped him up and moved him. All it took to manage his behavior was for my husband to offer a tiny treat for an "off" and a "sit." Magnum now knows the routine and, as soon as my husband opens the bedroom door, is off the bed and sitting, waiting for his treat, allowing for my husband to claim his place and then Magnum to claim his.
I think snarky sleep behavior is a Basenji trait. I also feel that sometimes managing the behavior, rather than trying to eliminate it, makes everyone happy. It did for us, in this type of situation.
I consider what you did to be training there, gbroxon. Management would be saying the dog isn't allowed to sleep in the bed anymore because of the behavior.
Management is what we do when either there is no simple training solution (eg trying to get two dogs who hate each other to live together) or when we can't invest the time at the moment, or for some other reason it is impossible to train a new/replacement behavior (eg table surfing at our house is at an all time high because my son offers food and drops food and leaves food for the dogs; I don't have the time, and he doesn't have the capacity to change right now, so dogs don't hang out in the room while we eat)
Anyhow, I think what you are saying is you can't train how the dog "feels" about interupting his sleep, but you can change how they react…which I think is absolutely accurate....and I think that is a great way to train.