So @Alex Lato I tried this without the ball and just got bruised from love bites😂 I try to keep my hands out of the way or he will expect me to grab the ball. This was hard work, physically as you can tell from my face at the end 🤦 🤣

In this video, I’m again trying to activate Rocky while taking the advice into account. When I take hold of his collar, he immediately releases the toy, so at one point I allow him to grab the toy without a marker, and later I reinforce holding even while I’m holding his collar. He continues to try to keep a bit of distance and offers backward movement, whereas I would like him to be more active / to bark closer to me. In any case, this attempt feels slightly better to me than the previous one 🙂

@Alex Lato I tried having her outside the room while setting up the camera, thinking this way I could maybe capture her excited spinning around when she knows we will do something. But I think this amped her up more resulting in the bark

@Alex Lato another day another try to play and then get food!

@Alex Lato some social interaction with breakfast!