http://www.dragonflyllama.com/%20dogs/levels/LevelBehaviours/LevelsBook.html
Right. BUT. How to get a puppy in the game? I know people who start their puppies in the bathroom, where there are no distractions. No matter where you're working, take great care to control the opportunities to do anything else. Then set yourself up for success so that the dog is going to be desperate to work. By this I mean work when the dog is hungry. Make sure she doesn't have to go outside. Use at the very least her dinner, better yet, throw in an occasional bit of hot dog or roast. Or, with a Terrier, maybe one time in five or ten, you might hand her a real fur tug toy and play tug with her for a minute as a reward.
If you're working with a hungry pup who's expecting her dinner, and she wanders off to do something else, you can cancel the whole session and walk away yourself - taking her meal with you, of course. Then give her nothing until the next scheduled meal, when you start asking her to work again.
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