Beddy Whippet Help?

[shropshire mole 190]

This is my 5 month old beddy whippet

 

 

 

 

She is doing well, doing some simple recall in a field calling by name & whistle and using cooked chicken treats as a reward each time. Have tried other bribery treats, but she responds to high end treats only

 

She does not seem very interested in fetching a ball or toy back to me. Any ideas/thoughts on the best way to teach?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Blueboybilly 164]

Penny did a really good article that will help you with retrieving and recall.

 

http://www.thehuntinglife.com/the-value-of-tug-games-with-puppies/

 

Really helped me and my young whippet with retrieving to hand about a year ago. You need patience with this (as you do with any training method).

 

Cheers BBB

[air gun ant 1,666]

Bonnie pup that mate

[nothernlite 18,077]

Got a young dog the same won't chase ball dummy anything but will bring a rabbit to you good luck as been said above

[reddog70 236]

nice pup sm what height is she atm.

[bird 9,868]

Got a young dog the same won't chase ball dummy anything but will bring a rabbit to you good luck as been said above

same here,Buck great bringing back game, to you prob my best retriever , where as Bryn loves fetching balls to you to throw, he been good at retrieving when he was younger.But not as good as Buck, and dont think Buck ever had more than say 3-4 retrieves(dummy) in 4 years, if he can carry it he will bring it back lol. i think some dogs are more natural retrievers than others, and the herding types deff seem more keen than other x lurchers, that what i found in 30 years using different type xs

[Wales1234 5,490]

I can throw a ball or dead rabbit and all 3 of my old lurchers will just stand and look at me stupid but all will retrieve rabbit and shot fox no problem ! Pup will chase a dead rabbit but won't pick a ball up

[gwalchmai4110 1,757]

"sika" my older bitch will deliver rabbits to hand.....but throw a tennis ball and she looks at you like your a knob!!

 

atb

[swg dave 334]

My dog use to retrieve rabbits, but now sometimes he will S times he wont

but will bring the ball back strange lol.

[shropshire mole 190]

nice pup sm what height is she atm.

She is currently 17" to the shoulder, not sure how much bigger she will get.

[northern lad 2,292]

My bed/whip/grey pup chases anything that moves ,but his recall is shocking lol,very wilful/headstrong pup so youre not on your own.At the min he has no off switch,if he wants to do something hes doing it,never had a pup like him,even the bull terrier and bullmastiff were easy by comparison,hes all legs at the min,about 14 TTS at 11 weeks,yours is a cracker,atb with it,Dave

[neems 2,406]

Maybe try a flirtpole,see if that gets her interested,then move onto tennis balls.

[green dragon 701]

I wouldnt worry to much mate my pup is 16 months old and has never been arsed with balls and toys .he enjoys a shitty old pices of rope but thats it lol he retrives to hand well most of the time and he dosent really play with dead stuff

[nickdonboy 264]

Penny did a really good article that will help you with retrieving and recall.

 

http://www.thehuntinglife.com/the-value-of-tug-games-with-puppies/

 

Really helped me and my young whippet with retrieving to hand about a year ago. You need patience with this (as you do with any training method).

 

Cheers BBB

Good readay.

 

Anyone got any experience using this technique?

[whitefeet4190 1,725]

Got a young dog the same won't chase ball dummy anything but will bring a rabbit to you good luck as been said above

None of my Lurchers will retrieve a ball they will chase it then leave it, but never have a problem with them retrieving rabbits so I wouldn't worry too much mate as long as they come back when they are called the rest will follow ?

Nice pup by the way

Atb