Demo – Physical vs Mental Disengagement

You may think your dog has disengaged from something because they physically leave something, but have they really disengaged? Disengagement is two-fold – physical and mental. This video shows that even though Sila physically disengaged from a hole he was digging in the snow. However, when we practiced recalls 20-30 minutes later as we were heading back out of the bush, he initially was successful but on the second recall, he made it around the corner and very obviously had not mentally disengaged from that hole in the snow.