Well I am pumped and ready to go (after about 3 hours of self prep talk every day since I decided to enter)

I have so many ideas but the one I have picked could fit in either category.

I am going to teach Bak to get the mail out of the mail box and carry it down our driveway (about 400 feet or so) without tearing it to bits.

I am going to break it down like this and could use any feedback on if this is a good/bad method.

First teach him to touch something moveable with his nose - I am thinking a paper sticky.

After he does that and gets mega treats - put the sticky in other fun places finally ending up on the mail box - which he doesn't like because it's metal and it's not all that stable and worst of all, the door opens and he doesn't like it.

Once he will put his nose on the mail box sticky, I will put it on the open part of the mail box and then on the mail.

He likes envelopes in the house so I hope he will want to take them out of the mail box and carry them.

Sorry for the length of this but I wanted to list the steps so those who are more skillful than I (about 98% of LB folks) can chime in and tell me what I am doing wrong.

I choose him putting his nose on a sticky as it will work for other training down the road.

So there - I am in .. yikes!