Mealtimes here are broken into three at this age for Luna. There are no hard or fast rules for what meal gets what treatment but meals are not just bowl fed and go.
BREAKFAST is usually fed from a KONG - either a frozen or a Wobbler
LUNCH is usually done by training session - so essentially hand fed as we go
DINNER is usually half and half of the above - some used for training and then the rest fed through an enrichment toy or puzzle. This helps her settle much better at night in the kennel.
Here is a mini training session we recently had with her lunch.
It's important to train the "pup that shows up" - meaning being fluid enough to adapt your sessions and training style to the dog as they are in that moment in front of you, not try to force your expectations on them.
She was excited in the beginning to train but then she was just like - nope - just feed me now. There is no point in making her frustrated or me getting angry at her not doing what I asked - besides the fact that she is a baby baby still - making training a chore or something the dog avoids does no one any good so we wrapped it up and she had lunch.
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