[Tom O]

I have a dog who goes to the thrown duck and pushes it with her nose and flips it over and over before picking it up. In the water, she paws it and when it starts to sink she goes under water and then grabs it. No problem delivering to hand or holding duck for extended periods of time. Anyone have suggestions for how to control flipping the duck and speeding up return?? Thanks

 

[mwk56]

Here, nick Here!! Assuming she is collar-conditioned.

Meredith

 

[ClayStubby95]

I am not sure if your dog has been force fetched. But I think that could possibly fix the problem, and the here nick here could possibly work as well.

 

[crackerd]

and his LBD sister- "Cinnamon and Pelham's" beautiful Boykin daughter, KJ Just a Jamaican Mistral

Is this your Boykin that's rolling the duck over? If so, might not be disobedience or avoidance and the nick might be unnecessary - sometimes little dogs will use a roll

for getting a better grip on a bird. The water retrieves you describe lead me to believe this might also be the case with your dog, especially if it's the Boykin. If so, you want to give a smaller dog every benefit of the doubt for making the retrieve land or water. But if the dog's playing with the duck or hesitating to pick it and just rolling it for "sport" or avoidance, you can proceed with a correction as others have advised.

MG

I have a dog who goes to the thrown duck and pushes it with her nose and flips it over and over before picking it up. In the water, she paws it and when it starts to sink she goes under water and then grabs it. No problem delivering to hand or holding duck for extended periods of time. Anyone have suggestions for how to control flipping the duck and speeding up return?? Thanks

 

[polmaise]

A crippled bird,the dog can't roll them ones .it just has to figure out how quickly to get it in it's gob, any paw or attempt to roll or nudge ain't gonna achieve that.

 

[crackerd]

A crippled bird,the dog can't roll them ones.it just has to figure out how quickly to get it in it's gob, any paw or attempt to roll or nudge ain't gonna achieve that.

Robt., your cripples are different than our cripples. We usually take their feet out from under them -

so they don't become "runners."

But irregardless, some of our quarry needs to be nudged or turned over for getting a secure but undamaging grip of any kind...

By the way, how come no comment coming across on this big "Rigg" deal?

MG

 

[polmaise]

By the way, how come no comment coming across on this big "Rigg" deal?

MG

Just back from a Busy weekend in Englandshire Training/Judging and competition . Catching up on the news .. My Mate 'Frank Geraghty' in the Borders will be well pleased ..