It's a way of getting them to focus on you and be positioned where you what them to be by having rewards in your hands and they have to learn to...
@Sven, what super photo's, Vanilla is so, so cute !
I was speaking too soon here, since then Cassie has been walking around smelling like a large lump of goats cheese! It looks like it's more...
Was a magic wand and swish of cape job? Or just the one? :)
Oops, don't know what happened to make my post do that, @snowbunny, can you put it right?
Yes, and yes, I think she is more motivated by hunting for the dummy, it's just frustrating because it's as if a wall (metaphorically) is blocking...
Thanks Karen, that's exactly where we are at present. It's just strange the way she blows hot and cold. The trainer at my gundog group brings a...
Thinking of you all Swampy x
Yep, I agree a short walk with the lead on could do the trick just before bed, it works for Cassie, I'd rather do that than hang around during in...
Cassie's retrieving desire seems to be rather fragile and changeable, at times she can be enthusiastic and bring it to me beautifully, and at...
Good boy! He really is a lovely dog.
I love that one on the paddle boat in Amsterdam especially!
Yes, that's exactly right. You think they'll never get it, but suddenly they just do. It's as if as their body and brain matures their world gets...
Gosh what a lot of ups and down you and Bear have had, pleased to hear that you are coming out the other side it seems, and that you enjoy him so...
Maybe there is a dog/ bitch thing going on, as suggested by @MF, I've never thought of it before. My television is in a different room from the...
Lovely to see Wispa and Tuppence. Tell me though, is that a tube of Pringles behind them, on the edge? Does it stay there?
Is that not ok because he's unhappy or might it affect his life as a guide dog?
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That's the thing exactly. I just hope I enhance Cassie's life as much as she enhances mine.
Oh! That little one 4th from the left!
