teaching recall to a bull x

[sionnach99 1,258]

He’s not too bad just gets distracted by something and then decides not to hear me but when he’s out in his own with just me walking him his recall is good, suppose he just has to be a pup for now and I’ll  keep an eye on it , 

[sionnach99 1,258]

[sionnach99 1,258]

Any pics of yere pups ?? 

 

[Caravan Monster 323]

Keep on top of it if not too happy with his recall. I went wrong with mine by treating her like my old dogs that would automatically come back after a long run. I have a bit of track where there are rabbits in the hedge on both sides and you often get a run although catches are rare. If I could start again, I would use that track to hammer home the recall after every run. My old dogs could pretty much be left to get on with it on a walk, but I now know it is a mistake to let them just do their own thing. This one I have to keep on top of all the time or she'll be a mile away (literally) and hunting on. She's 100% on recall and retrieve if there's no other game around, but if there is She's getting better, but has been hard work and a real worry with all the major roads in the area.

[terryd 8,383]

9 minutes ago, Caravan Monster said:

Keep on top of it if not too happy with his recall. I went wrong with mine by treating her like my old dogs that would automatically come back after a long run. I have a bit of track where there are rabbits in the hedge on both sides and you often get a run although catches are rare. If I could start again, I would use that track to hammer home the recall after every run. My old dogs could pretty much be left to get on with it on a walk, but I now know it is a mistake to let them just do their own thing. This one I have to keep on top of all the time or she'll be a mile away (literally) and hunting on. She's 100% on recall and retrieve if there's no other game around, but if there is She's getting better, but has been hard work and a real worry with all the major roads in the area.

My experience exactly apart from the retrieve lol. Couple that with a good snout and you have to be careful.

then there is the look that says some thing down the valley so lets go boss and don't waste your breath calling me back

and were off 

 

 

[Casso 1,261]

You got to make yourself more revelant to the pup at that stage of development, 

sexuaity brings strong urges which are being  triggered by other stimulation, 

a pup doesn’t finely tune any stimulation at that age because evolution doesn’t know what round the corner so it’s stimulation level and interest are vast , it’s  anyrhing that triggers its Prey instinct, 

so engaging it’s prey instinct through you is the only way to go, it stops  other behaviour now from becoming a habits later 

food,  tug items , walks away from other gobshites in as quiet an area as you can so the pup can relate this new found hunting instinct along side you , that bonds , always 

feed on the walks , keep the pup on a long line, give hand signals for recall and when that’s off , add a command at the same time it’s has a bouble  whammy effec in time

 

but make sure you get one at a time a  hungry pup learns body movement and gestures fast , long before a verbal commmsnd is secured because he become more eager to now where his next mouthful is at all time

and that’s the way I would have reared him as a pup , a pup that is constantly watching and listening for a command , a hand signal for return  is so f***ing deeply engraved from an early age that it has formed a habit that could have easily become a bad habit of another form ,

we create the pups world , forget about all the socialisation crap , you show it what to do with its instincts and it will learn to ignore anything else not hunting related, that’s how the Bond works, the owner become the only revelant object in its life because direction has been found and channeled, 

once it knows what it’s about,  the little niggles usually iron themselves out , has it done anything ? has it hunted  with other dogs , which will also create very  strong reading of their  body language  first before you became only slightly important in its life 

sorry that doesn’t sound right I mean from a prey instinctive point of view , ah ya get my drift,  , all it understands is to be a predator First  , the bond follows from that expression 

 

Edited August 3, 2018 by Casso

[Casso 1,261]

a Dog only ever has a physical problem bud ,  

if you think about it very f***ing issue we have with the dog has an energetic element   to it ,  

chasing  a cat , jumping up , ripping up shit , even whining is a low energetic vibration , 

quality time with dogs involve movement,

not sitting on sofa together  , patting , whispering, none of that shit has any revelance to building a bond, the primordial aspect of a dogs character is the key 

pet dogs get hooked on chasing ball it’s the only instinctive expression they have , 

prey instinct is a gateway into the canines social aspect, motion is the key