help please

[nasher1 258]

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 skin even a dummy with a fresh rabbit skin wrapped around it you can even stash stuff and as long as she has seen you do it when you ask her to go and get it she will, throw a rabbit out though tell her to fetch and she just has a sniff and walks off, thanks in advance for any advice this is really doing my head in, I'm not inexperienced with working dogs but this needs someone elses point of view as I'm at a loss atb nasher

[Joe1302 0]

Just a suggestion but turn your back and walk away from her and back to the gate and make her come to you she should try to give it you might not work. or go onto one knee make her feel superior and call her hopefully she might give it to you.

atb

joe

[albert64 1,882]

one of the down falls of working it with another dog while its still young and only learning the ropes, other dogs can teach it bad habits work it on its own it should come good as you,ve said it was fine before, take your time and keep calm as your dog will pick up on it if your not

[nasher1 258]

Just a suggestion but turn your back and walk away from her and back to the gate and make her come to you she should try to give it you might not work. or go onto one knee make her feel superior and call her hopefully she might give it to you.

atb

joe

I've tried walking away, stood with my back to her, she comes back to me no problem just wont touch a rabbit after she's killed it