bez 0 Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 everything is ok with my bitch just over year old now she sits,stays great the recall getting better but the retrieving doing my head in now in enclosed spaces she great with the dummy but out in field or somewhere else different she dont want to no runs after it then has a sniff then thats it any ideas what to do next really doing my head in now its a rabbit skinned dummy by the way, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fieldsporthunter 1,864 Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 trie and get your dog excited and playfull before starting retrieving training, i do this inbetween every training session.......sit, stay, retrieving, recall ect.. i find some young dogs and pups get bored of the same dummy. i always swap my retrieving toys around every week. i bet if you roll a tennis ball along the ground you would get a result. atb Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TIMMAY 6 Posted May 7, 2009 Report Share Posted May 7, 2009 Mine did the same thing, well she was real good retrieveing at about 6 months old, pretty much anything anywhere, and then it all went to sh1t. I kept trying and trying to get her to bring the dummy back, but she just wouldn't. Then someone said perhaps i was over doing it, and to pack in the retrieve training all together. I did this for 2 weeks, then tried again and she was alot better, just did one or 2 retrieves a day and left it at that. Think the worse she got the more attempts at getting her to retrieve i tried, and we both ended up being thoroughly bored of the whole situation. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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