Have a 1 year old chocolate lab female that is really good with retrieve only problem is that when bringing it back she lets go when still about 10-15 feet out and lets it either roll and bounce to me. I can tell her to "get the gift" and she will pick it up and kinda throw it with head a few feet closer. I have to tell her 4-5 times to get the gift until it gets to me. She just want to get it close, turn and go back for another throw. How to I get her to just bring it to me and not let go until give the command to out the toy or put it at my feet.
Let her retrieve a dead duck. Hahahahaha.
Think that'd work?
Sorry Jacob,
I couldn't resist.
Without seeing the dog, I'd say try working on a recall front a center first. Seperately I'd work on a sit (hold, stay, whatever your command is). From that exercise (the sit stay) I'd start throwing the ball, when she has the sit stay down, I'd combined the three peices altogether; ie. sit, fetch, come. By then you may have to reteach the out but at the moment you're not worried about that are you.
If my dog isn't learning, I'm doing something wrong.
Randy
PS.
I hope that all made more sense then I have any other time tonight.
she will just look at it. She is very smart, you can send her into the field, tell her to down and she will stay there all day waiting for you to throw her gift. But when she comes back, she drops to 10-12 feet from you and heads right back out to field.
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she will just look at it. She is very smart, you can send her into the field, tell her to down and she will stay there all day waiting for you to throw her gift. But when she comes back, she drops to 10-12 feet from you and heads right back out to field.
When she drops the ball and heads back out, do you get it and throw it for her again?
Have you tried something as simple as trading for a treat? This would force her to bring the ball all the way to you in order to get the treat. Use steak...
Melissa Thom Webboard User Reg: 12-04-2007
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Are you teaching the retrieve with treats?
How I taught the finish was to sit in a lawn chair with my lab in a sit and a bumper. I'd hand her the bumper and when she spit it out into my hand at the same time I said "Give" she got a kibble. Once she got to the point of holding the bumper until I said "Give" I'd drop the bumper on the ground let her pick it up and give it back to me. Once I got that consistantly I then started some short tosses.
you are still continuing to reward her by tossing the "gift" again even after she doesn't bring it to your feet? why would she?
what would she do if, when she dropped it 10 feet away, you just turned around and walked off?
i had a dog who would not bring things all the way back. i started doing this,and he'd pick the ball up again, and bring it to me, practically shoving it in my hand until i had him drop it, or give it.
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