The Importance of Play in Training

With Kisu, I used play. And the reason I did it was because the split between training and traveling was distressing to her. So no food, no toys for the last many months of their careers. What I did was I used the work itself. She loved doing the dumbbell retreat,. she loved the retrieve over high jumps, she loved the go out - so I used those as reinforcers for the other exercises which were more stressful for her or harder.