Where ever your dog resides on the  Retrieve is Life – Never Retrieve continuum we can develop tidier retrieves, more purpose or just the key start.

Through the 6 weeks we shall be teaching the basic skills that builds your dogs’ understanding. Even if your dog is not considered a natural retriever: a dog that enjoys the process of carrying and delivering to a person, we can teach them the steps. 

➤  Micro Pick Up and Place this is the smallest possible element that can be the foundation, or concept, that your dog can move “things” from one place to another: even just the width of their nose. This is a purely natural move for a dog, taking their favourite bone or biscuit to a sunny or safe spot to enjoy is evident in 5 week old pups, of all breeds. 

➤  Wild Retrievers The dogs that take tremendous pleasure is carrying objects but have no structure or organised learning path. These are often the tossers, pouncers, the run-past-you, destroyers and most frustrating and expensive dogs. 

➤  The Runaways who love their favourite toys but will avoid delivery at all costs. Their pleasure is often wrapped in the possession and see no point whatsoever that can come from giving Precious to a Person. 

➤  The Delivery Skills whether you are seeking the formal present with object or want to avoid field searching for missing toys we can build a desire to return objects to you for the opportunities you can guarantee. These skills are often complex requiring a merging of several skills. 

➤  Advanced Questions can be answered Retrieve based on discrimination of collection, by name or category, and placement through matching can be an exciting learning project that requires a solid understanding of the foundation retrieve.

See Biggles here; the unlikeliest of retriever. 

There may be opportunities for additional teaching of the advanced questions in a follow up course. 

Getting Dog to Fetch is sometimes seen as a pre-requisite of our relationship with dogs; but more often this is an innate instincts that gets screwed up by the human expectations and even the keenest retriever can lose the joy or go quite off track.

This is not an activity where the dog should be doing all the work, but a respectful appreciation of what they can do and how we can bring pure pleasure to the process. 

Requirements

A selection of toys and suitable objects for retrieving will be required which are mostly home made. 

Rewards are at the centre of the learning and always deserving of close inspection and our skilful employment.

Never be too busy to learn.