Hi there,
We use Ivy's 12pm feed as a training meal. We mix up a variety of commands and games and use kibble as rewards for sit, down, leave, middle and close. The one we do to get a bit of exercise in and reinforce recall is throw out a piece of kibble, tell her to 'get it' then call her name and give her another piece when she comes back. I also add in a 'twirl', but that's for my own enjoyment really
If she looks like she's losing interest, I scatter the rest of the kibble and ask her to 'go find' or put it in a brain game. We have a spinning bone game (which we took the small plastic bones out of as she ignored the kibble and just picked up the bone and ran round the house with it like a nutter):
https://www.nina-ottosson.com/products/all-products/dog-tornado-new.htmlAnd this one, which took her a bit longer to figure out:
https://www.nina-ottosson.com/products/all-products/dog-casino-new.html(You can find them both on Amazon)
My friend who is an obedience trainer and has x2 cockers showed us this so I can't take credit for it at all!! It's really effective in tiring her out for an afternoon nap (well 1-2 hours peace before the chaos resumes). There's some good videos on youtube showing 'middle' and 'close' training as they're quite tricky to explain and I wasn't familiar with doing them at first (ignore me if you already know how to do this!) Oh, and 'twirl' of course if you want to teach Loki a cute trick that will annoy your gundog trainer...!
I started doing this at around 15 weeks and she loves it