"HOLD...with a ferret?" All is fair when using excellent distractions.

Why not do a Hold with the ferret as a distraction for training?

Sugar had the same crazy 'ferret fascination' as another dog who did this same training WAY Back in 2012.  I did the below training Hold exercises with Sugar long, long...LONG ago..

LOL...notice Sugar's eyes in the 1st photo?

By the second photo Sugar had settled into the job at hand which was Hold...despite that squiggly, smelly, wiggly ferret thing!