learning

Why is it so difficult to get full attention from the dog while performing the routine in the rings of either the demonstrations or the competitions when the handlers successfully trained their dogs to learn many moves and tricks.

(short meeting before the performance with Dada)

Nowadays many people train their dogs with the reward based methods. And I think this plus rewards methods based on the learning theory proved itself as effective and right in this freestyle world more than any other dog sports activities.

In caninefreestyle dogs should have happy attitude towards the activity when there is only the handler withe the dog and also have to have rather flexible mentality so that they can learn various moves. 

With applying the learning theory to dog training and using click&treats many handlers can teach dogs various "moves and tricks".

But I see many handlers cannot keep the dogs' attention and happy attitude once they are in the competition ring.

Why is it?

I just feel "attention and happy attitude" might not be what dogs "learn".