accessories

Accessories are fun to add in, but not right away except in small bursts.  All environmental distractions I try to keep to when they are dragging in, ie through all sorts of stuff, or them standing on random stuff while they are barking at the end of the line.  The bite is the reward for going through all the env, stuff.  The bite stays the safe fun place where all that other stuff drops away.  If it was stressful going through then the reward is the bite, not more stress once they are biting as well.  Once they are confident going through anything and everything to get the bite they will probably have gained enough confidence to be cool with a bit of accessories added into the bite as well.  So if thats the case throw a bit in, but not all the time.  Some bites should just be more calm and not so much noise of this or that clattering around them.  At some point it all becomes background noise to the dog anyway.  At that point you hope your dog can target around the pesky crap in his way to the bite.  Hopefully he knows to bite whatever is open to him at that point.  Mondioring started as a "level playing field" for dogs from many sports to join, but french ring dogs crossing over dominated for years.  It seems after years of mondioring becoming its own sport more techniques specific to success primarily for MR have been surfacing.