Since Eden is now retrieving joyfully, I am going back to work on her hold. She wasn't able to deal with any pressure when we first started the retrieve, so I skipped it. But, now I am going to reintroduce the idea of a calm, firm hold...if I can. LOL I encourage her to tug a little to firm up her grip, we'll see how that goes. Her grip was instantly better going from the slippery, plastic AKC dumbbell to a wooden dowel - now we have to tone down the excited head-tossing. Silly girl! I did a few sit, stay and recall to front to see where we were with that since I haven't done them in months - she did wonderful! A few teardrop/flip finishes and we called it a day - what a girl!
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