The goal is to awaken activity by encouraging offered behavior and to more confidently push an object that makes noise 🙂

We had a great time and even played together with sounds present 🙂

We tried the box exercise and I attempted a few times to move the box when he shifted his focus away from eating, but I realized it might be a bit too early to do that with him. Especially since he isn’t a big eater and is quite sensitive to touch. After two attempts, I decided instead to reinforce returning to eating — I hope I’m doing the right thing 🙂

Pulling the food bowl — it’s obvious that the act of pulling itself gives him more pleasure than actually eating the food 🙂 Later I toss a few pieces into the bowl; he chews them, but you can clearly see that the enjoyment isn’t really there 🙂

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 🙂