Hi.

This week we continued to work on the pocket game. I’m seeing improvement! Question, do we need to be careful about marking? I’m not meaning to, but I’m finding that I’m falling into a pattern. I found in most cases I say super and then open the pouch. And in some cases I’m saying super after Bits has let go… (worried that I might be marking the out as opposed to the interaction).
I’m the video below she does get distracted (maybe I had been trying too long?). But to be fair there was a lot of food spillage as that is where I first opened the pocket.

Below we are playing the good toss game with a bit of run. I think she liked it!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by Chris Chromy.

Here is our first and second pocket toy. We have not played this game before. I got a little greedy in the first set and put too much pressure on her. She had been poking the pocket with her nose or pawing it and I wanted her to put her teeth on it. Gave her a five min break and tried again. On the 2nd set she went in with her mouth.

My thought to keep is to stay at this slow pace until she is readily picking up the toy with enthusiasm. Is that the right thing to do?