Henry just retrieved something!

[Spudlet]

He just brought me his new dummy back!

That is pretty much the first time he has retrieved anything all the way to my hand (well I say all the way, he retrieved it a grand total of about three feet in the kitchen in return for a bit of hotdog - baby steps!)

I am so proud

 

[kirstyhen]

Well done Henry!!

Otto does all his retrival training in the house, or if we want to go a bit further we go to the gym

I daren't take a dead Pheasant around the woods with me for him to practise with, so I have little choice

Must do the trick though because every rabbit he has brought back to me has been perfectly presented!

 

[Cop-Pop]

Yay well done Henry!!

I was so relieved when Yellow Dog decided that retrieving was his 'thing' - I never had to teach it to him. My goldie on the other hand didn't pick it up until she was 5

 

[Spudlet]

I was so proud, I can't tell you

He will pick up and carry stuff on walks, chase and carry sticks etc and present me with gifts in the house - but the idea of actually bringing something back that I had thrown had been totally alien to him to this point

It's so frustrating when I can see he has some instinct to do it, but he's just got all these naughty habits!

Onwards and upwards

 

[CorvusCorax]

Yay! There's hope for us then

 

[Spudlet]

Yep

I started off by target training him onto it, then rewarding him for holding it - this was the most difficult step, going from touching it to picking it up. Then just very short distance retrieves. Now we are just going to keep practicing and build the distance up (she said optimistically

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[Slinkyunicorn]

Try it with a picnic.......

Still a work in progress with Max and live/dead things like fish.................

 

[Spudlet]

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Try it with a picnic.......

Still a work in progress with Max and live/dead things like fish.................

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D'Oh!

Would you actually have wanted him to retrieve that fish? Really?

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Hmmmm.....

maybe not retrieve but dropping it and leaving would have been good!!

Do you think there was enough fish oil in it to be good for his brain cell??

 

[kirstyhen]

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Do you think there was enough fish oil in it to be good for his brain cell??

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There is not enough Fish Oil in the world for that

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

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There is not enough Fish Oil in the world for that

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Good point well made!!

*retires Max from his obedience career......*