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When's too old to force fetch?
My dog will be 3 in a month. I trained her myself but never finished forcing her. We made it through hold and picking up the dummy on command. Once I started the ground work it started getting rough and I was scared to mess her up not knowing fully what I was doing. I picked it bAck up a couple months later and had her working a line up to about 20 yards. Hunting season ended, Laziness, and lack of time got in the way, and I stopped working her. Hunted her this weekend. All her marked retrieves were great, but the blinds she went to her typical hunt on her own and eventually find it 5 minutes later deal. Is it too late to try and finish forcing her? She still knows her commands to pick up the bird and delivers to hand just won't work a line and doesn't know hand signals.
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Force is not required for a hunting dog to run blinds. It makes it easier only if you follow up force fetch to force to pile to double t to pattern blinds and so on. It sounds like the dog just hasn't done enough handling to trust you.
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Thanks for the suggestions guys. I've had a few at the camp and will have to read them again tomorrow. I'm not granular with the swim by so if somebody would explain that please. Raymond I'll get with you tomorrow. I really think I'm capable of doing this myself and she's a great dog so I'm gonna put the time in to get her finished . The dog has over 600 retrieves under her belt easy.
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Easy as painting by nummers if you'll listen and act.
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