Your "succesful" method of teaching the RECALL - Page 1

any suggestions???

The best way I've found to do recalls is rarely ever put them on lead to begin with. Call dog, reward with toy food etc... Once I have them flying at full speed, I'll start on leash perfecting and teaching what I want when they get to me, usually fine tuning with a clicker, then switching to the ball when technique is good. 

Melissa

What I did was put her in a platz and told her to wait, then went and stood a few feet away... with a very sudden movement, I hopped in the air, slapped my hands on my legs, said "Hier!" really loudly - just a sudden, hyper, loud movement that got me down on her level, and she came racing over. As soon as she got very close, I jumped back up into a normal stand and shouted "Sitz!", and as soon as she did (which was always pretty instant) I would start praising and petting her like crazy... usually wound up wrestling for a bit, she likes that, and then would do it all over again. May not be the "normal", or even the best way to teach it, but it worked for us, and her recall is the best part of her obedience now, lol. Worked for us. :)

If you're talking about a Recall with a Front - Sit...Then you teach each separately...The actual recall you teach like was said above as a game...Teach the dog by playing ball or some toy to go out for it and then return for another toy...

I use the 2-Ball Game...It teaches a Send Out and a Recall all at the same time...It's also great exercise...and it can also be used to teach your dog to "Out"...To me it's all within the beginning of "Drive Promotion"...

Take pup out bush, let it wander off. sprint in opposite direction. let it panic. call it and hide. rinse repeat.


take pup in bush, let it wonder off, run in opposite direction where a prey item is when it locates you prey is in sight and dog goes for it without breaking stride.


rinse repeat, i can and have called my dogs off a rabbit heading straight for a barb wire fence hidden in long grass while they are running at full speed.

the first teaches the command the second gives them a reason to do it in drive.

Thank you VK4;  that sounds too funny but sounds like it could work.  New ideas I am always up for. 

 

Melba, thank you.

 

QMan, yes recall with front sit then finish sit;  maybe too much all at once.  I will separate and have done it that way also but dog was let off leash and ran off having a hay-day hoot hollering good time;  Bad dog...  Back to square one. 

I always teach it on lead slowly lengthening the distance and the lead when I feel the dog is solid. I sit the dog next to me at heel telling it to sit. I then tell the dog to stay placing my open left hand directly in front of its nose and step away on my right foot. At first I walk to to the end of a 6 foot lead, turn toward the dog, look between its ears (never directly into the eyes), pause a few seconds, give the command - hier, come, whatever - and reel him in immediately. I tell him to sit facing me near enough so that I could reach out and touch him without bending over.  With the lead held in my right hand I hold the dogs head up so he is looking at me. I reach over the dog with my left hand enforcing the sit command. This must all be done in one smooth move. Praise. Pause a few seconds, don't look him in the eye, and finish him to heel, either right or left. Praise a lot. I finish to my right on the recall, so hold the lead with my right hand. If you want to finish left, hold it in the left hand. Soon the dog will come when called, sit straight, and finish on command. You want to eliminate the sit in front command. In a trial, the dog must do that automatically without being told.

I don't break it down into multiple exercises per se, I like my dogs to learn it as one. I don't use food rewards for all dogs. My current dog is a major food hog so when there is no food - can't treat a dog in the OB ring - she tends to lose focus and doesn't work as well as she does for praise alone.

If you keep the dog on a lead while you're training the recall, it's easy to make corrections. Don't let him make a mistake then you won't have to work to correct it. If he breaks before you tell him to come, walk him back to the same exact spot, sit him again without saying a word. Walk away and repeat the exercise. Don't make the mistake of constantly giving a dog a command. Tell him one time.

If you haven't trained for a CD before you should probably find a good Novice OB class. Many different things can happen and it's good to have help. No 2 handlers train exactly the same way as you can see by reading the responses to this post. It's difficult to train alone.

Many agility folks have another person restrain the dog and let it frustrate to get. to handler then release and ....booom. .

Why would an agility person do that?