<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">One of the things I spent money on at the IKC show was one of those interactive dog games. I got the simplest one.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
You put a treat in bone-shaped hole in a round carousel type thing and let the dog get it. You do that several times and then put a bone-shaped cover over it. Theoretically the dog learns to push the bone cover aside and get the treat.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">So okay we try it with Nigel, since he is perpetually hungry and also kind of a captive audience. I put a piece of string cheese in the hole and give it to him. He has trouble getting it out of the hole because the carousel is plastic and now the cheese is slippery and so is the plastic. He gets it anyway. He does this a few times and I figure that he is ready for me to cover it up. So I put the plastic bone cover over the treat which he has seen me put in there.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">He stares at it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
He stares at me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">He puts his nose down and my heart goes pitty pat-- he is going to do it! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
and then he stares at me again, gives me one of those filthy looks only a Basset can do right, and turns his head away.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
He won't even look at it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I take the treat out and hand it to him and he drops it on the bed. Then he curls up with his back to me and goes to sleep.</div>
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Whoever invented this never tried it on a Basset.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">
MomPerson to Nigel (I'm not playing this stupid game.) Llewis, Conley and Doc</div></div>