Articles Part Deux

After one night of virtually no sleep after the awful news, I awoke this morning, looked at the clock and realized it was 5:00 a.m. I'd gone to sleep at 9:30 and slept through the night! That's the first time in well over a year. Between Dusty's semi-incontinence, Daisy's compulsive paw-licking (only at night mind you and it's LOUD), Erik's snoring and Shiloh's attempts to jump onto the bed throughout the night, well, you can see there's a lot of interruptions. One particularly bad night I was awakened about 8 times. So really, I get about 3 hours of sleep/night.
Anyway, I felt GREAT! It's amazing what a bit of sleep can do. I worked out on the Wii Fit (it said I was a Body builder today as opposed to it's usual calling me an old lady), got all morning chores out of the way and had a nice chunk of time to train Moto.
So, we went back to where we left off with the articles, only this time I started with leather. He wasn't sure at first but boy when this dog gets it, he really gets it. Once he realized a correct article could be metal OR leather he didn't miss a beat no matter where I put it. And that "silence means you are right" is working out great. I've made it into a bit of a game where he comes back and presents the article and I'm smiling like the Cheshire cat at him. Let the anticipation build, then I take it and a BIG release, excited praise and a cookie to top it all off. He's always very pleased with himself and it's very cute.
We then worked on about-turns as he's not wrapping as tight as I'd like, which of course lead to more doodling.
The weather should be nicer next week so I hope I can get him out a bit to try out his attention in new surroundings. I really would like to show him in Rally Novice in March so I need to step up my game.