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Recall Training

Getting your dog to come back

fourteen month old border collie with what i now realize is genuinely high prey drive and our recall has gone from "reliable in fenced areas" at 9 months to "completely unreliable around any moving small animal" at 14 months and i am stuck on the e-collar vs long line debate because everyone i ask answers with their ideology not my dog

Wren is our 14 month old border collie, 36lb, female, from a working line breeder (her parents both run sheep on a farm in vermont and we got her on the explicit understanding that she would have a...

Posted by passionatePetparent745•
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two year old border collie aussie mix who had functionally bombproof recall from month five through month eighteen in our former suburban neighborhood and has become meaningfully less reliable in the four months since we moved to a rural property with regular deer and rabbit traffic, the recall is not gone and is degrading in a pattern that worries me, looking for families and trainers who have walked the suburban to rural transition with high prey drive dogs and can tell me whether this is normal regression that requires patience or structural failure that needs immediate structured intervention

Atticus is a two year old border collie aussie mix we got at ten weeks from a working line breeder in our former suburban region. We did the recall work the way the published protocols and our local...

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Recall is finally reliable after 8 months

Started with a long line, worked our way through every distraction i could think of, and now my dog comes running every single time i call her name. The key for us was making myself more exciting than...

Posted by exhaustedtrainer11•
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