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I''ve continued to work with Sage on clicker training. She is picking up on everything very quickly, but still seems very hesitant and reluctant to do the tasks. She is thrilled to get the treats, she is very food oriented, but for example slinks reluctantly over to the target 10 feet away, doesn't run or even walk enthusiastically, or gives calming signals and refuses to go. With many things with Sage, she learns something enthusiastically and is very excited at first and then completely loses enthusiam for it after it is learned. She has done this with fetch, swimming and other things as well. I thought she had really liked working on touching targets from a short distance, but now the same pattern is forming. The first few weeks we had her she played fetch like a fiend, then she stopped. Then we taught her to swim, she loved it, couldn't get enough, now she won't go deep into the water. I'm just not sure what the problem is. We certainly aren't being aversive in teaching these things, but she almost acts like they are punishment after a while, but not at first. Any thoughts on my puzzling dog?