Woodie said:

AussieDJ said:

Woodie said:

He’s lost the maniacal obsession with “fetch” and “bring it back” since I banned it a couple of weeks ago. He still love it. We did a strict half hour of it yesterday for the first time since. He was fine when we finished.

How did you train him out of it?

Hid all his “toys” for two weeks. left him just with bones. In his “maniacal obsession” stage he would not behave. Every time he saw me (day or night) he would charge off to the “fetch it launch pad”. If I went near him, he’d charge off down the paddock to his “ready to pounce spot”. Would not respond to commands…. nothing. So I stopped playing the game.

BTW….. I didn’t really teach him “fetch it” and “bring it back”, “drop it” or he learned it very quickly. But I tells ya what, when I do “chuck it”, he bolts off down the paddock, rolling arse over tit, to grab what I “chucked”.

I do love these updates about Benny Boy. Every day I am missing that joy of having a dog in my life. We saw a Red Cloud Kelpie playing fetch on Friday, at a foreshore park. Really delightful watching the dog’s movements – crouching, leaping, doing that running down low creep, she ended up in the water. That made my heart feel good.