Cayla - you can have her back!!!!

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Let the doglets off for a hoon around in the paddocks as usual this morning whilst I put Bob out, laughing my head off because even Islay was running around like a lunatic (and leaving the other two standing I must say :))

Went to put them back on the lead after sorting Bob, whereupon a certain little black newbie decided to not come when she was called AGAIN :eek::mad::mad::mad:

She b*ggered off up the paddocks, across the yard, and back to the mobile home to wait for her breakfast....

I was NOT impressed :mad::mad::mad:

I am guessing that now she has been here a while she feels that it is time to test the boundaries? Never had a rescue do this before (and she was so GOOD to start off with???) so I am at a bit of a loss now :confused:

Shall I keep her on the lead for a bit and then recommence recall training???
 
Bella used to run home when she got freaked out and there was a while I thought I would never be able to let her off, but she has really improved and is a lot more confident, but will still not recall unless I call her in a VERY silly, high-pitched, friendly way, anything approaching my normal tone of voice and she just circles ready to tank off.

Was there *anything* that could have freaked her, bearing in mind, dogs react to things we wouldn't even consider.

Maybe try some one on one with her if you have the time using CC's Age Old Recall Tips :p just to build her back up again.

She was maybe just hungry and couldn't be arsed waiting?
 
Ah yes CC, thinking about it Tilly used to do the same many moons ago, anything remotely challenging to the brain cell and she would run home, even down to one of the other dogs having a tiny grumble at her or getting to boisterous playing around her. I had forgotten all about that. She now does pretty much the same except I am the safety she runs to instead of home.
 
Bloody irrational females :p


Used to run back down the hill to the yard in a panic and find her peeking out of her kennel like the sky was falling in. Over a creaky branch. Or me asking her to do something she didn't want to do. Good hard fearless temper she has :p
 
Haha - good girl Many - she's a feisty one!
She can't be golden girl all the time, at least it makes you appreciate how good the others are (suck-ups!) :D
 
But it's not easy when you're hungry and knows where the food is going to be served.
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I'm sure you know all the basic advice, long line, run/walk the other direction, tastier treats, setting up the situation so that she can't fail, pretend that you find something extremely interesting on the ground and talk to the other dogs about this incredibly fascinating discovery (i.e. straws of grass, pebbles with different colours etc), when you get to the door walk past it and go for a little extra turn...

Perhaps it was just an one-off?

:)
 
Lol....I garee with Finny, I think it's ther food she was inpatiently going home for:rolleyes:
You will have to take the treats out with you, so u have something equally as nice to offer, ans use the Julie Andrews voice to recall......I personally would not have given any breakfast either, jsut incase she was running home for it, this way she assosiates her running home with siltch and arriving with yoy with some breakfast.

You can return her tought still;)
 
CAYLA said:
Lol....I garee with Finny, I think it's ther food she was inpatiently going home for:rolleyes:
You will have to take the treats out with you, so u have something equally as nice to offer, ans use the Julie Andrews voice to recall......I personally would not have given any breakfast either, jsut incase she was running home for it, this way she assosiates her running home with siltch and arriving with yoy with some breakfast.

You can return her tought still;)
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Hmmmm, OK then, it goes against all my principles but treats it is :) Didnt think about not offering breakfast TBH, stupid me, I still had to put hay out for Bob so I walloped her when I finally got her, put her on the lead, and we went back out into the field to put the hay out...

I tried everything to recall, stupid voices, kneeling down, fussing the others, offering them a pretend something to eat from my pocket, walking off in the other direction with both other dogs, pretending I had found something interesting on the floor and showing it to the others.....:confused::confused:

D'ya know I feel so guilty about having her...especially after Bray....not sure what she would like best TBH, I do love her to bits really of course but would she be happier with you? She makes a rush for Ronald (lurcher on the yard) every time and I think he reminds her of Flint and the others..

Jeez, you can tell my medication is playing me up cant you, what a dithering numpty I am :D:D
 
It's jsut a glitch.....don't get too stressed, she was familiar with her route home, and most dogs will do a runner in a familiar area, Im not a treat carrying person either but sometimes it has to be done, jsut so u can reinforce her recall, so cheese it msut be:D put a little bag in ya pocket with previously chopped up cheese or some chicken and just call her high pitched every now and then and give her some every now and then(take the bag out of your pocket when u give her a bit) this way if she does this again, u can produce and rattle the bag to get her to run back, treat her and clip her lead on.......it def sounds like she was being rather bright and making her way home for what she though was a reward (her food) and just as u dont carry treats....I never feed breakfast:rolleyes:
I only used cheese on her the first week I let her off then after that, she always came when called, but if she does it again (no breakfast)
Im sure she has just taken a liking to the dog on the yard and does not think he is flint:p
There will always be glitches, like Flick wittling on the floor and the problems u had with her crate, but they will soon iron out once u are consistant.
 
Ahhh she was loads better tonight - even though I forgot the bl**dy treats again :o - and I think I may have found the problem! Islay and Flick were constantly bombarding her and chasing her tonight, even though she snapped at Flick about four times to tell her to go away, and Amy seemed to be getting a bit stressed about it. I wasnt paying that much attention this morning so it might have been that happening then too, Islay in particular is very snappy and insists on asserting her position as top of the three of them, cant be a lot of fun for poor Amy!
 
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