I have a eleven month old bitch which I have been putting a lot of time into, she is shaping up really well started giving her a couple of runs from seven months and she was a natural, retreiving back to hand always dead but they tend to do that when they start, anyway took her out with someone elses dog my bitch was retrieving a rabbit and the other dog grabbed it and a tug of war ensued, next time I took her out she only retrieved to within 10 foot of me and now she wont retrieve at all, even runs off with the rabbit and drops it in the field, she will retrieve anything balls, dummys, rabbit