Is separation anxiety and bad recall linked?

Get mad! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! I would tell her, I'm a proper wimp alot of the time but when people piss me off over my animals I'm quite good at saying what needs to be said! Show days are a bad time to cross me anyway as a rule...I'm very stressed, flustered etc. and this is where most of these incidents occur!
I'm concerned all my advice tonight is quite angry! :p D
It's like reverse anger management! LMAO!
 
Thanks all!

Well I'm trying to get us into a routine now. Was up the yard for 7, fed the horses then took archie up the woods for an hour. We used the lunge line and I let it trail and he was great. Every time I wanted him to come back I danced around waving my arms with the most ridiculous 'what's this' voice.....seriously, I looked demented, but he came back!!!!!

Left him in the car while I lunged moo and he barked a bit but then got engrossed in watching the horses being turned out.

I got back and he slipped past me and onto the close. Que me, in the middle of the close doing my very odd playschool dance and guess what? He stood still while I walked up to him wagging his tail (instead of legging it)!

I've just given him breakie and now we're back to the kitchen and then out routine. Going to extend to an hour now and see how he does. He hasn't barked this time on his own in the kitchen....think the little man is catching on!

thanks for all the replies - think I'll get a harness as the lunge line keeps slipping between his dangly bits and that can't be any fun!!!!
 
Looking demented and making a tit of yourself is the key to recall training, keep it up :)

Although I would run away from him rather than walk up to him, I know too many dogs who turn it into a 'chase me!' game! When he is settled you can introduce a 'wait' or 'stand' command, where the dog will stop and you will be able to walk up to him.

Harness is probably best for smaller dogs but the line dragging from his collar under his belly between his legs will do no harm, that's what a lot of people do with tracking dogs (like me, who can't afford a big fancy tracking harness, haha)
 
Cool thanks!

Glad I'm doing the right things. I am already asking him to 'wait' and he seems to have that already......I did ask him to wait when I got him in the close earlier.

when he comes back I make a big fuss of him - it does seem that his reward will never be food but mummy acting like a complete knob.

Nice. haha
 
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