Oh yay! Cholsey is really close! Let me know if you ever want to meet up for a training session or walk :) I am currently training 'recall away...
Teenage Indie discovered she could pick the unripe apples from the tree. She'd pick one, run into the house, play with it, lose it somewhere and...
I'll swap! A lab-pointer is just what you need :p
yep I agree - when we were walking her off lead in the woods, I used to always change direction, hide etc., and she has never had a problem with...
thank you JulieT, this is great. So if I understand it right, I am basically training 'focus' outdoors currently. I think in most situations where...
Thanks! Yep it makes sense to me to keep it relatively infrequent and so very exciting. She recalled away from a mad game with a Vizla puppy...
Thank you JulieT. How can I make sure I get this transference - just hiding food better about my person so it is not a lure? Should it happen...
Thanks Lisa. I do hope I am a good dog mum :) even if slightly neurotic! That's what I was hoping, that it will become a habit to listen and stay...
Thanks Helen :) yeah I am lucky she is reponsive to food, she actually wasn't at the start...now she loves rootling after a bit of thrown chicken...
Thanks Stacia! I don't know, I am not sure about this 'liking being with me' thing...of course, in the house she likes a cuddle and a stroke, wags...
And the biggest question, why am I up at almost midnight on a Saturday worrying about dog training...? o_O
We have been walking Indie on a training line for a few months now in an attempt to make her more responsive to us, prevent running off after...
thanks Ruffie's Mum! Actually this is pretty much exactly the course of action I have been taking recently. We've also been putting it on for...
Thanks everyone. I emailed the dog walker, I just have to wait to see what she says. I have stupidly left this very late really to spring a whole...
Ugh I agree, I thought deep down it would be really bad but was hoping that I was wrong. I don't think the dog walker can keep her on lead, she...
We are going on holiday tomorrow, for 9 nights, and leaving Indie with the dog walker who does home-stays. Since we got Indie at the start of...
Indie was a terrible bed chewer. We resorted to buying an eye-wateringly expensive 'guaranteed unchewable' bed from Orvis, who claimed a dog had...
Some people also haven't had their dog from a puppy, so all the training from day one has not happened. For the first 9 months of her life my dog...
Thanks all. I do think walking on a long line is dangerous without a harness. And I would much rather not have to use the long line in our...
I haven't tried it yet but I just came across it mentioned in this thread: http://thelabradorforum.com/threads/scared-of-eye-drops.16798/ it seems...
