Success via Total Recall book!

[TooOldForGlitter]

Been following this book to the letter for some considerable weeks now. Today was the let him go and pray part (mebbe not worded like that in the book ).

Fenced in field, one dog in distance, two close by (I had asked owners if it was OK to let him go as he may fail to recall!). He recalled off the two nearest dogs and blanked the other. All good, we are pootling about with the kids. Then, aaargh! Pheasant shoots out of a bush, Bob gives immediate chase and recalled instantly! How Smuggy McSmuggerson was I? VERY!

[KarinMurphy]

That is brilliant! Well done.

[moosemama]

Fantastic! Recall from a pheasant is no mean feat with a sighthound. Well done!

I blooming love that book. I followed it with Pip when he was small and he had a fab recall until very recently when teenage nonsense kicked in a little. He's still pretty good, but not as rocket powered with the returns as he was and there's just that occasional hiatus when my heart stops as I wonder whether or not he's going to do-one rather than coming back. He hasn't ... yet, but I have probably just jinxed myself saying that - not good when we're about to go on holiday!

Lurcherboy is also pretty good, but has 'Saluki' moments every now and again where he just goes. Fortunately they are really few and far between, maybe one or two every 6 months or so and he always comes back before he reaches whatever he's running towards - but instant recall it certainly is not on those occasions and it still drives me batty, as obviously he can cover some ground between when I call and he decides he will come back after all. I didn't use the book with him, as we've had him 8 1/2 years, but am seriously considering getting it out again to reinforce the pair of them.

[Bubble2bubble]

Wow that is impressive, I would be very smug indeed.
Week two of whistle training here ( still in the garden ) which seems to be going well but that gives me optimism. :)

[WeAllHaveWings]

We did the total recall with ours when he was 8 months old. It's was amazing when just a few weeks into the training he recalled immediately from a flock of running sheep we came across unexpectedly.

The problem I have had is sustaining the recall now he is 15 months old, its like a game he doesn't want to play everytime anymore, even for jackpot treats. Think the biggest problem is dh who only recalls with the whistle when he needs to rather than just for fun and may have not been rewarding him for the recall due to what he was up to before it (he credits the dog with enough intelligence to understand this )

But I need to buy the book again to see if it has help for this, as ddog (labrador) ate 1/2 of every page of the last one!