Lucy is always all about the food
but she is also thirteen and not that hard to deal with these days
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Riley is a much harder choice. I walk a very fine line with him between rewarding and over stimulating. I would love to use a ball more to reward but at this stage he is still obsessed and that shuts off his brain. I have had some good recent success using a tug ball instead
. I have to be careful while working and rewarding with play on a release command to not get him to hyped up. Food of course is always excellent although again he loses interest when overstimulated. The more I work with him the greater his self-control develops and I am able to use more stimulating rewards and then have him settle right back down again
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