08/16/2025
Lovely session with Miss Dolce! We played a lot of engage/disengage which you can see a bit of here with our distraction a distance away, Karl the stuffed husky. Dolce's mom had a great question, when we are working on a specific trigger, what if a different distraction gets our dogs attention? The answer is, it depends!
The squirrel up the tree making some noises, probably not something I'd worry about marking and rewarding in Dolce's case as she's not very emotional about that. A loud child on a bike zooming past? A squirrel running nearby us on the ground? Yes, I'll probably mark and reward those! Whatever is hardest in the space around us is going to be my priority to focus on!
Awesome work, Team Dolce!
Brittni Hyzer CPDT-KA, FFCP, FDM