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Recall Training

Getting your dog to come back

twenty month recall update on our treeing walker coonhound mix, from a door bolt and a three hour chase through the state forest to a whistle recall i would bet real money on, the long line year nobody wants to hear about, the premack trick that finally worked on a nose with a dog attached, and the $40 spray collar mistake that cost us two months, posting because every hound thread has someone swearing scenthounds cant learn recall and i believed them for a year

Banjo is a treeing walker coonhound mix, roughly 3 now, adopted at around 14 months from a hound heavy rescue in kentucky, and on day 9 with us he shouldered through a storm door that wasnt fully...

Posted by hound_dad_ohio_61•
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twenty month old vizsla has a ninety five percent recall everywhere except around deer and rabbits, twelve weeks of long line proofing has plateaued, and i need help choosing between more of the same, a properly conditioned e collar, or accepting this is a management situation

Rudi is our 20 month old male vizsla, 52lb, intact (breeder contract, neuter decision at 2), from a hunting line breeder in michigan, and hes been in recall training since the week he came home at 10...

Posted by four_dog_breeder_household_lifelong•
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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...

Posted by rural_relocation_recall_degradation•
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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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