The second part of Shirley’s Name Recognition is to hold a yummy treat in one hand. Show the dog and say his name. When he focuses on you and not the treat, click and give it to him.
We just did a round of these. He did -- marginally well. What he did *really* well was not focusing on me, but sitting. Which is something we had worked on before. Hold the treat and click when he sits. He finally seemed to figure it out, but it was really funny to watch his brain trying to work it out. I’d hold the treat, he’d look at it, then sit, then turn his head around, looking up, over his shoulder. Really as much to say, “Who, me? I don’t see no stinking treat.”
Emmy, of course, got one treat for each of his.
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