Ravenwood
Well-Known Member
Following on from that recall problem post - I rejoined the gundog forum and asked them to find the post for me and someone did (well, a precis of it anyway!) and here it is C&P'd. This one is definitely worth a try
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found this in the FAQ hope its what your looking for ...
here's my tuppence worth for overcoming a recall problem, and it works.
If you are going to give it a food treat don't mess about with little bits make it worthwile.
Get a couple of hot chickens (this is a hot tip after all), from the local supermarket, strip all the meat of the bones and put the whole lot into a bag.
Go out with your dog let it offthe lead for a run, recall it, and when it gets close throw a bloody great handful of hot chicken in front of your feet. When its eaten it let it go again and then repeat the exercise.
Two chickens is about four recalls, on the last one, put the lead up your arm (assuming you have a rope slip lead) and when she returns hold some chicken in your hand and as she takes it just slip the lead over her head, feed her a few bit of chicken while she is on the lead, tell her she's a good girl and trot off for a short walk before taking her back home.
Save a small amount of the chicken to give her when she gets in the car.
Repeat after a couple of days gradually reducing the amount of chicken, and replacing it intermittently with praise.
As has been said, the recall is vitally important and you need to get over a particular barrier, so you need to have something so attractive she will willingly cross the barrier to get it.
This is also a good opportunity to introduce a very reliable recall whistle
Jeff
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And here's a link to that page and therefore the site
http://gundogandbirddogforums.yuku.com/topic/4119/master/1/?page=1
This one is really worth trying
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found this in the FAQ hope its what your looking for ...
here's my tuppence worth for overcoming a recall problem, and it works.
If you are going to give it a food treat don't mess about with little bits make it worthwile.
Get a couple of hot chickens (this is a hot tip after all), from the local supermarket, strip all the meat of the bones and put the whole lot into a bag.
Go out with your dog let it offthe lead for a run, recall it, and when it gets close throw a bloody great handful of hot chicken in front of your feet. When its eaten it let it go again and then repeat the exercise.
Two chickens is about four recalls, on the last one, put the lead up your arm (assuming you have a rope slip lead) and when she returns hold some chicken in your hand and as she takes it just slip the lead over her head, feed her a few bit of chicken while she is on the lead, tell her she's a good girl and trot off for a short walk before taking her back home.
Save a small amount of the chicken to give her when she gets in the car.
Repeat after a couple of days gradually reducing the amount of chicken, and replacing it intermittently with praise.
As has been said, the recall is vitally important and you need to get over a particular barrier, so you need to have something so attractive she will willingly cross the barrier to get it.
This is also a good opportunity to introduce a very reliable recall whistle
Jeff
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And here's a link to that page and therefore the site
http://gundogandbirddogforums.yuku.com/topic/4119/master/1/?page=1
This one is really worth trying
