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...