Right folks bit of a weird one, my ess is 12 months old now and just had her first season which finished two weeks ago, all has been going well I have been taking her out and practicing retrieves and the other basics, she has been doing really well finding blind retrieves out to 60 yards so I was happy I am getting somewhere, then It sstarted to go wrong, for two nights a week my wife works and so I look after the kids so I can't get out with the dog, anyway for the last couple of nights I tried a few retrieves Iin the garden but she is completely ignoring them, she will sit at heel and wh