one thing about running to get your treats from a table or crate area...make sure that your dog knows putting the leash back on is part of getting the treat..where we use to train the crates where in the same area as the setup so we would run back to our crates to treat the dog..well you can probably guess what happened a time or two..once in an obedience ring I had just taken the leash off for the stand for exam..dog was sitting next to me..looked at me looked at the gate (our setup off to the side but near the gate)..looked at me again..then the gate and took off running to his crate where the chicken was sitting..arggggggggggghhhhhh.. happened at an agility trial to..unfortunately he had the zoomies in the ring and finally ran out of the ring to his crate sitting there patiently waiting for his treat.
So now I always take them in and out of the practice ring on leash too and their last command in the agility ring is "leash" so they run to their leash and we can get the leash on before we run back to the crates for the good dog treats.
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