excited i didn't want to just prod him with the ball but let me see if he's receptive to playing with the ball now here look at me yes okay cool he's willing to engage with the ball now i've got a currency now i've got his attention let's do some training look at me yes good here good turn by the way this isn't just any ball this ball has actual natural scents that are embedded in it and i think it might be chop's favorite possession at the moment it's made by playology i'm gonna have a link in the description now throughout this training lesson chop has been in and out well let's be honest he's been mostly out but as this lesson goes on i'm noticing this very subtle trend where he's starting to give me more and more attention voluntarily in this setting which is the key point so the next time that he gives me his attention i really need to seize on that and see if i can get him to focus on me for a solid NUMBER_TOKEN seconds maybe even a minute by working on things that we've laid the foundation for over these last many days yes he's letting go come here look at that look at that leash walking good we're gonna turn here ready oh look did you see that turn look at that tension yes good man okay we got a dog right here i'm gonna let him check out the dog a lot of give and take here when you're doing this he's showing me that he's willing to try periodically as he has throughout this lesson then i've also got to let him check out that awesome dog here okay can't get his attention yet understandable that dog's very close but i'm just gonna manage him here let him look at the dog chop's interest is definitely peaked in this other dog and we're really close to them but so far he's behaving relatively calmly although he is extremely alert and highly focused on that other dog right now i mean look at his tail how it's up look at those ears how they're directed towards that other dog and look how uninterested in me he is right now however he's not having a full-on reaction which is good but he is borderline good man doing a good job i'm doing my best to encourage him to be calm by using a calm voice and petting him very softly here the reason i'm not creating distance from that other dog right now is because i feel like that might trigger his reactivity at this point my goal isn't to achieve rock solid obedience with chop my goal is to allow him to satisfy his curiosity by observing a dog at close range without pulling my arms out of my sockets i'm getting leaning behavior again let me see a little bit yep it's okay as soon as i stand up chop has a hard time again though remember what we talked about earlier the farther i am from chop the harder it is for him to listen even just this much further all right let's give him some space okay good man there we go
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN by the way this isn't just any ball this ball has actual natural scents that are embedded in it and i think it might be chop's favorite possession at the moment it's made by playology i'm gonna have a link in the description now END_SPONSOR_TOKEN