Fodhla intermittently lame

Do you mean teach her specific items? Like mine know if they bring a shoe and I say ‘where’s the other one’ to get the pair. This only fails if another dog has nabbed the pair and to try to make up the shortfall they bring a random shoe. 😆.
But I only taught it by accident, which may not help. I used to take the wrong one but say ‘good dog but no, this isn’t it, where’s the other one?’ And then loads of praise when the right one turned up.
 
ArklePig said:
On the retrieving stuff, while I'm on here, does anyone have any good resources or tips for teaching discrimination on objects? I'd love to be able to get her to retrieve more specifically when we have retrieving to hand down. Now that we've got 'perfect family pet' down I'm looking to do more fun stuff with her and stretch her brain that bit further.

One of the objects will not be a ball, as she would walk past a leg of deer to get one. The springer is strong in that regard 😂
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I know what you mean! Zak ignored the pheasant during cold game training because he was looking for a ball or dummy. I had to really encourage him, don‘t Think he liked the feathers at first. You can get a scent to spray on from gun dog websites eg Sporting Saint to reinforce that it’s the correct object, so maybe use on her ball then transfer to other desired object.
 
You need to pair the items with a specific word separate to the retrieve and backchain it.
New signal/old signal/reward.
So, for instance, say Teddy, show her/she looks at Teddy, mark and reward. Separate session, Shoe, show her Shoe, she looks at Shoe, mark and reward.
In separate session, train the retrieve with something else, at first marking/rewarding acknowledgement and any attempt to move or mouth it.
If she already knows freeshaping and marker training that will help.
 
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