[nagdu] Obedience

[Tracy Carcione]

I am trying to be good and do my daily obedience exercises.  I try to do 
them in various places.  What else have people done to jazz them up and keep 
them interesting and useful?
I would like to try them with food around, but I'm not sure I can be quick 
enough to keep Krokus from snatching the food without some help from 
someone.  He's really fast, and getting the food would defeat the whole 
purpose.  But I know it can be done, and would like to know the trick.

Tangentially, when I learned OB at GDB many moons ago, I learned to wait a 
beat or two after the down before giving the sit, so the dog was responding 
to the command and not anticipating.  But it seems different at TSE.  It was 
down sit down sit down sit, with no real time between.  Krokus expects that, 
and my classmates did it that way, so I was on my first or 2nd down/sit and 
they had done 3.  Seems odd to me, because Krokus pops up a second after I 
say down, thinking that's how it's done. Seems to me he should be waiting 
for my command.
Tracy