As next week is half term, we are going to start total recall with barley, i am slightly nervous, and a bit exited, as i know what a pain he is. We have stocked up on high value treats such as Liver cake, heart cake, chunks of cooked liver, chunks of cooked heart, packets of cat wet food, chunks of cooked bacon, cheese, chunks of chicken and ham & cheese treats. He will be on the training line, until we can be certain that he will come back even from distractions, so it is going to be a lot of hard work, but we are willing to put the effort into it Wish us luck
Re: Starting total recall with barley Wow , barley has got some excellent treats there Annabelle,you will enjoy doing it,take it slow and you will make progress I'm sure and don't forget to let us know how you do x
Re: Starting total recall with barley Day 1, session 1 Barley thought that it was great, he got treats for just being there and hearing a whistle
Re: Starting total recall with barley That sounds like the perfect start Annabelle,well done to you both,let's know how it's going and have a great half term holiday x
Re: Starting total recall with barley New tactic: Having to use cat food instead of treats as treats are not interesting enough, even liver cake, so gonna try that tommorow, and try with his food tonight as well
Re: Starting total recall with barley On the menu today is felix chicken and turkey in jelly, split into 3 equally sized pots, outcome of whistle one, much more attentive and could not wait to get his face into pot of cat food, looks like i have found a winner
Re: Starting total recall with barley Great work Annabelle ,good boy Barley....glad you are back in the training zone Annabelle x
Re: Starting total recall with barley Whistle two barley knew what was coming, he was drooling with anticipation for the cat food :
Re: Starting total recall with barley Great work Annabelle and Barley, I might just try cat food for Charlies' recall - a bit smelly though but who cares if it works
Re: Starting total recall with barley Yes cat food does stink, but it gets barley working, it also got him working at agility, but we also had every other dog at agility very interested in me as well :
Re: Starting total recall with barley I wandered around with a pouch of cat food in my jackets for months ;D Eventually used it for a really good recall with some low key wildlife, but not got around to replacing it - good idea I think, must look it out again!
Re: Starting total recall with barley [quote author=drjs@5 link=topic=2989.msg33398#msg33398 date=1383427522] I wandered around with a pouch of cat food in my jackets for months ;D Eventually used it for a really good recall with some low key wildlife, but not got around to replacing it - good idea I think, must look it out again! [/quote] We have a whole box full of pouches and a few trays, most of them were in a 50% of sale, so they were 19p per pouch. We found cat pouches better than dog pouches as 1. they were smaller 2. they were usually more fish based 3. there are cheaper in the first place
Re: Starting total recall with barley Great idea re. the cat food pouches, ready and waiting for use as a jackpot. I like it!!!
Re: Starting total recall with barley He is now getting the idea of whislte means cat food, his eyes light up when i get the whislte and pot of food out from the fridge , gonna start step two tommorow, but only for his tea, as he is not keen on eating his breakfast any more
Re: Starting total recall with barley we use catfood pouches too, they're great! I just use a poo bag to put them in after they're empty
Re: Starting total recall with barley we are splitting each pouch into 3 equal amounts and putting them in some small tubs that we have, and i keep them in the fridge until i use them
Re: Starting total recall with barley Last night, i whislted for his food and helooked ever so happy, we will give it a few more days of this before we try step 2, depending on his leg as well
Re: Starting total recall with barley The last few days we have being doing step 3, and things going very well so far. we have either been doing it for his food or cat food, depending on the time of day
