Obedience Training and Tug

Have just started Shirley Chongs Clicker Retrieve, we are up to step 5, I reward her for interacting with the dumbell.


I am also working on increasing her tug drive. In this video I am recalling her to the tug in the family room.


I am also working on having her touch a target stick with her nose, I keep the sessions short as she is easily distracted as food is not a high motivator for her. My husband is busy in the kitchen which provides a bit of distraction that she has to work through. I will wait for her to work out what gets rewarded. I take the target stick away when she is not interacting with it as I don't want to nag her with it.


Tia is following the target stick, I may use this to teach heeling, she seems quite interested in the moving target.


I am working on tug and getting her to drop the tug for another toy that I have. Hopefully she will learn that the tug is more interesting when I have it then when she has it.