Leave It

We've been practicing a new trick. It's a Leave It trick. With Flash sitting in front of me, I put a cookie on his nose and say, "Leave it."

We've been doing this for a few days now. At first, Flash would try to get the cookie right away and I'd have to say "No, leave it." Most times the cookie would fall off. I'd retrieve it and try again. Pretty soon Flash would leave it until I said ok, but then the cookie would go flying with Flash after it.

Yesterday the cookie would just fall off his nose onto the floor as Flash tried to get it. Today we had a breakthrough--he flipped the cookie and caught it. Ha. Just what we wanted.