after sit/stay, come, and heel, whats next for retriever training?she is almost two.?

Question

she fetches the ball but drops it 5 ft away.

she plays with a ball but drops it a few feet away. should i start with her on i 15 foot leash and throw it there then give a treat when she puts it in my hand? or do i need the leash? or when do i make her pause before going. and will that make her lose interest in the game.

Answer 1

If she is two she is a little old to be starting out for field training.
By the time our Weimaraners are two they are out hunting in the filed and pointing and retrieving to hand upland game birds and ducks.
If she is playing etch and dropping the ball 5 feet away from you do not reward her until she puts the ball in your hand. It should not tkae long for her to get that she gets atreat for bringing you the ball and nothing for not.
We start our baby pups like that. They chase and return and get a treat for the ball. They are only to happy to get the ball again for more food.

Answer 2

well, you could definitely improve on that, my dog brings it right to my hand, I still have to retch it out of her mouth, but at least it is in my hand. If you have kids a great trick to teach her would be for the kids to hide and she finds them. I use my dog to find my 3 year old quite a lot. Give the kids a treat to give her when she finds them, then they reward her. Another is if she stays, walk away from her, then tell her to heel, and make her walk slowly towards you, no running, even make her sit half way to you. Retrievers are great! Good luck.

Answer 3

Why don't you try keeping the ball in your hand for a while, and make the game you play with your dog be about having the dog in close to your body....This would work nicely with teaching a new command, a "give" or "out" (whichever you prefer), as well as a "get it". Lure the ball out of the dog's mouth by presenting a treat, and then play Doggie Zen with the ball, as you would with food. Reward a lot for lots of these exchanges. If you can play tug with the ball w/o losing your hand, you can do that too. But for the next few days, don't throw the ball - get your dog used to playing with you and getting rewarded by being close to you with the ball, and "give"-ing it to you. Then start to increase the distance by tossing the ball (just a foot or so at first.)
I also like teaching a nose touch or targeting behavior. Links below....have fun......

Answer 4

My dog is just over 2 and is a Husky/Lab cross. He can do those as well as lie down, rollover, speak, shake a paw, high five (just a variation of shake), walk around me and sit in front of me again, the cruel treat on the nose trick (don't make him/her wait too long, its mean), give a hug, give a kiss, and we are trying to get him to whimper/cry on command too.
Retrievers are smart dogs, they can do lots of tricks if you take the time to teach them.

Answer 5

Give paw, roll over, bring ball (to ME), or teach her to bring you a certain item from several different. How about sit pretty? Those should keep you busy for awhile.....LOL

Oh one more....teach her to be able to keep a bone balanced on her snout and when YOU say it's okay have her toss it in the air and catch it. That's a hard one!

Answer 6

i could would desire to assert it may be between "determine of authority" or "loopy heel". determine of authority because of the fact like Vickie and Eric, somebody with ability that abuses that's a place that attracts assorted warmth from the followers. incredibly whilst 2 heels (area and Vickie) team up it makes for assorted excitement because of the fact you many times desire that in the time of a roundabout way the face will pull it off however the flexibility heel team continually pulls it off in a roundabout way. As for the "loopy heel" it is only very staggering. it is unpredictable and you in no way understand what he/she is going to do. once you have a character that's volatile, it has the followers on the sting of their seats questioning what he/she is going to do next and if he/she would be waiting to get it away with it.

Answer 7

For The Fetching Problem:
if she really wants to play she has to learn to bring it TO YOU. it may take time but stay where you are and point to the ground in front of you and say "bring it" repeatedly until she brings it within easy reach. retrievers are smart dogs so she should learn quickly that you won't be happy unless you have the ball in ur hand. we had a dog that would bring it to about the exact same space away and drop it and then she expected me to come and get it. so i got stubborn and would refuse to play fetch with her unless she brought the ball to me my feet. no exceptions. if she didn't bring it all the way i wouldn't throw it. so finelly she started bringing it closer and closer until she started bringing it to my feet. every now and then she still trys to leave it for me to get it but i re-inforce it by not going and getting it and she will bring it all the way to me then.

other things to teach her are:
lay down
roll over
back up
shake
take a bow
chase ur tail
spin
weave between ur legs back and forth
beg
stand on her back legs only
"speak" which will also teach her to only bark whne aksed or when desperatley needed
"say hi" which teaches her to wave her forepaw in the air

also try teaching her basic things. think of things or habits that she has like maybe say she jumps up on people. have a friend help u by having them come in the door and when she jumps up say "down" firmly and pull her down. when she does it without u having to repeat urself more than twice or pulling on her collar give her a treat. do it with more than one person o that she learns that u don't mean just that person u mean that with anyone she jumps up on if u say "down" then that means get down RIGHT NOW no matter the person.


if she ahs any bad habits email me and i will give u steps on training her not to do those things. my email is [e-mail]

start off wiht things that are easier and perfect them. only then shoud you move on to other things or she might get confused. golden retrievers are smart dogs and they can learn a lot of tricks. just make u take it one step at a time so that she learns all of them completely not just halfway.

Answer 8

My first command has always been NO! My Lab likes to fetch but, doesn't like to give the ball back. When he doesn't return it I just refuse to play any longer. It didn't take him long to figure out if he wanted to play then he had to return.

Answer 9

Roll over, ~ shake, ~ balance a biscuit on her nose(thats always fun!), ~ high five, ~my dad taught his dog to salute kinda like a high five but with no high five, ~ you can teach her to pray before you give her a treat, set the treat on the floor in front of her and then pray over it like "Jesus bless so and so's treat, Amen" and then she can get her treat after you pray, its cute and fun,~ play dead ~ does she like frisbes? Frisbes are fun. Thats all I can think of right now. Good luck and remember to keep it fun! God Bless!

Answer 10

"Find Dropped Money!"