We had two interior searches. Gimme was on fire.
Interior 1 video - There were three stuffed toys on the floor, which provided plenty of distraction and wasted a lot of time. I like to let her work through them, so she'll have it in her experience bank in case we ever run into toys on the floor at a trial. Since she was a little stuck on the one toy, I put my foot on it and reminded her to go to work. So she goes to one of the others and touches it, as if to remind me she could play with a toy if she really wanted to. She goes back to the one she'd been stuck on and needed another reminder to get to work. And get to work she did.
It took her a little bit to decide on the high hide, which are usually her favorites. Still, finding high hides is hard and even more so with tempting toy distractions. Since I called it a little early, you'll see she spends a little more time working it, after getting her chicken nugget. I think this shows she has a really strong interest in solving puzzles and it's not just about the reward. The next hide was also inaccessible, between the red cart (behind the white cart) and the garage door. Then she has to go to the toy again - she really thinks she should get to keep the toy for finding hides. The look she gives me when she finds the file cabinet hide is priceless, truly a "holy cow" moment. She gets caught up again in the high hide and I have to help her move away, and then she is able to find the hide under the chair. Over 5½ minutes is a long time for four hides, but three of them were inaccessible and the toy distraction made it more challenging.
The comments about a "ring" is from our discussion about when to call alert and the answer was to wait for commitment. Which begged the next question, how much commitment - do they need to get married or just put a ring on it?
Interior 2 video - Since Gimme was so interested in the toys, I decided to bring our own toy to reward her with. Three hides were moved to make them more accessible. The only accessible hide was now made harder, though still accessible. She finds the filing cabinet hide quickly. From there she goes around checking all the top surfaces near where the stool had been on the table, before leaving to go find the hide on the red cart at the other end of the room. She needed me to move into the area before finding the hide on the stool, now upside down against the back wall. It takes Gimme a bit to find the chair hide, but once she gets close to it, she sources it quickly.
BTW remember the toy I brought for a reward - she was totally uninterested in it, despite having played wildly with it earlier at RFE practice. Apparently it was of no value -whatsoever- in the presence of someone else's toys. Everyone got a great laugh at my expense.
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