Can it be this easy?

Its been a while again...

We have been training formal retrieve in obedience lately. All I can say: can it be this easy? If things keep progressing like this, Riva is going to have super obedience scores :-).

I have mostly been working on the retrieve with a clicker but I did cut a few corners. When we were practicing holding the dumbell and after I had clicked him to take the dumbell into his mouth, I helped him by putting a couple of fingers under his jaw so he would hold it a few seconds. And after we were far enough to put the dumbell a couple of meters away and he wanted to go off running and playing by himself before bringing the dumbell to me, I put him to a light long lead. When he noticed he could not take off, he started to bring the dumbell straight to me.