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Thank you for posting this. I really like how simple your instruction is.
My thought about the name game is that it might cause side effects in association with the name that will need to be undone. <div>
Since we want the name to mean that the dog is going to receive a command wouldn’t it flow with the rest of your instruction to do the game with the full recall command structure intact for phase 1? IE: Name come. Giving the name, two different meanings can poison it. I find that the less nuance there is during the teaching phase the better. If sometimes the dogs name means to come then it builds some thing that we have to unteach and may ultimately cause the dog to receive more corrections down the road.
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